History of a street · 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

Avenue Pierre Vander Biest

In Dutch: Pierre Vander Biestlaan

Avenue Pierre Vander Biest, in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, has 50 buildings on the Atlas map, for 63 addresses. No period dominates: the street mixes buildings from 2 periods, from the 1940s to the 2020s. 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 – 196924
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 201026

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 22: 1951. 24 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

Pierre Vander Biest (1907-1943), prisonnier politique mort à la prison de Cologne en 1943. (remark in French, as published)

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