History of a street · 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

Rue Louis Thys

In Dutch: Louis Thysstraat

Rue Louis Thys, in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, has 21 buildings on the Atlas map, for 26 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1990 to 2009, with 52% 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 – 19131
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19898
  • 1990 – 200911
  • since 20101

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 40: 1910.

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

Louis Thys (1893 – 1914) est né dans la commune et mort à Pellenberg ex. rue de la maison communale. (remark in French, as published)

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