History of a street · 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

Avenue Jean-François Debecker

In Dutch: Jean-François Debeckerlaan

Avenue Jean-François Debecker, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, has 107 buildings on the Atlas map, for 115 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1990 to 2009, with 42% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. Almost everything there appears after 1914.

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When the street was built

  • before 14000
  • 1400 – 15990
  • 1600 – 16990
  • 1700 – 17990
  • 1800 – 18490
  • 1850 – 18790
  • 1880 – 19130
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19694
  • 1970 – 198918
  • 1990 – 200945
  • since 201040

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 90: 1960. 5 buildings in the street are dated by the heritage inventory.

Today's buildings, grouped by the period when the Atlas map first shows building on their plot. Approximate reconstruction.

Where its name comes from

Kind of name
Commemorative name
Theme
Local notables
Named in
1921

Jean-François Debecker (1829-1904) bourgmestre de la commune entre 1891 et 1903. ex. rue du Moulin (doublon), rue (1907) puis avenue (1921) (remark in French, as published)

Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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