History of a street · 1020 Brussels

Rue Dieudonné Lefèvre

In Dutch: Dieudonné Lefèvrestraat

Rue Dieudonné Lefèvre, in Brussels, has 51 buildings on the Atlas map, for 67 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1914 to 1944, with 53% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. 41% appear before 1914.

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When the street was built

  • before 14000
  • 1400 – 15990
  • 1600 – 16990
  • 1700 – 17990
  • 1800 – 18490
  • 1850 – 18790
  • 1880 – 191321
  • 1914 – 194427
  • 1945 – 19692
  • 1970 – 19891
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 160: 1909. 6 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
Local notables
Named in
1911

'L’artère est ouverte vers 1905, parallèlement au percement du boulevard Émile Bockstael, en vertu de l’arrêté royal du 05.10.1900. Elle est initialement baptisée rue Lefèvre, avant d’être renommée Dieudonné Lefèvre par arrêté du Collège de la Commune de Laeken du 16.05.1911, en hommage à un industriel qui fut échevin à Laeken, où il décéda en 1893.' (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives