History of a street · 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

Avenue Lieutenant Général Pire

In Dutch: Luitenant-Generaal Pirelaan

Avenue Lieutenant Général Pire, in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, has 22 buildings on the Atlas map, for 22 addresses. It was mostly built between 1970 and 1989: 68% of its buildings appear in that period.

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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 – 19690
  • 1970 – 198915
  • 1990 – 20096
  • since 20101

No building in the street is dated by the heritage inventory: the years are estimates by district.

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
Second World War
Named in
1965

Jules Joseph Pire (1878-1953), militaire de carrière, résistant durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, rejoint Londres, participe à la Libération (remark in French, as published)

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