History of a street · 1030 Schaerbeek

Avenue Zénobe Gramme

In Dutch: Zénobe Grammelaan

Avenue Zénobe Gramme, in Schaerbeek, has 60 buildings on the Atlas map, for 80 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 55% 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 – 19441
1945 – 19695
1970 – 198933
1990 – 200919
since 20102

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: Scientists
Named in: 1909

Zénobe Gramme (1826 – 1901) est l'inventeur de la dynamo. (remark in French, as published)

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