History of a street · 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

Rue François Gay

In Dutch: François Gaystraat

Rue François Gay, in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, has 199 buildings on the Atlas map, for 226 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 37% 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 – 19133
  • 1914 – 194419
  • 1945 – 196959
  • 1970 – 198973
  • 1990 – 200942
  • since 20103

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 354: 1906. 22 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
First World War
Named in
1918

François Gay (1888-1916) est né dans la commune et mort dans le Calvados. (remark in French, as published)

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