History of a street · 1060 Saint-Gilles

Rue Guillaume Tell

In Dutch: Willem Tellstraat

Rue Guillaume Tell, in Saint-Gilles, has 57 buildings on the Atlas map, for 75 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 79% 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 – 191345
1914 – 194410
1945 – 19692
1970 – 19890
1990 – 20090
since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 58: 1896. 13 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: Foreign figure

En référence à Guillaume Tell, héros de l'indépendance suisse et dont l'existence est mise en doute pour certains qui privilégient l'hypothèse du mythe. (remark in French, as published)

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