History of a street · 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

Rue Abbé Jean Heymans

In Dutch: Priester Jean Heymansstraat

Rue Abbé Jean Heymans, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, has 24 buildings on the Atlas map, for 27 addresses. It was mostly built between 1970 and 1989: 83% 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 – 19693
  • 1970 – 198920
  • 1990 – 20091
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 16: 1959. 3 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
1952

Jean Heymans (1904-1945) fut vicaire de la paroisse de la Sainte-Famille. Il est arrêté en 1943 pour avoir mené des actions de résistance. Déporté au camp de concentration de Flussenburg où il est décède le 4. 4.1945. Ex. rue du Hameau (remark in French, as published)

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