History of a street · 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

Avenue Paul Hymans

In Dutch: Paul Hymanslaan

Avenue Paul Hymans, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, has 85 buildings on the Atlas map, for 114 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 35% 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 – 19132
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 196930
  • 1970 – 198930
  • 1990 – 200919
  • since 20104

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 87: 1951. 21 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
Belgian figure
Named in
1939

Paul Hymans (1865 – 1941) fut ministre tout au long de la première moitié du Xxe siècle et donc sous les deux Guerres mondiales. Il fut également vice-recteur de l'ULB. (remark in French, as published)

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

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