History of a street · 1090 Jette

Avenue Joseph De Heyn

In Dutch: Joseph De Heynlaan

Avenue Joseph De Heyn, in Jette, has 83 buildings on the Atlas map, for 86 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 – 194429
  • 1945 – 19694
  • 1970 – 19894
  • 1990 – 200935
  • since 201011

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 29: 1921. 33 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
First World War
Named in
1929

Joseph De Heyn (1893-1918), soldat au 4e Régiment d'Artillerie, décédé le 22/10/1918 (remark in French, as published)

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