History of a street · 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

Avenue Marcel Devienne

In Dutch: Marcel Deviennelaan

Avenue Marcel Devienne, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, has 39 buildings on the Atlas map, for 40 addresses. It was mostly built between 1914 and 1944: 100% 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 – 194439
  • 1945 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 41: 1922. 39 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
Second World War
Named in
1945

Marcel Devienne (1910-1943), agent de renseignement et d'action et résistant presse clandestine. Arrêté en 1942 et exécuté à Cologne (1943). Ex. Avenue de la Lyre. (remark in French, as published)

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