History of a street · 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

Rue Sombre

In Dutch: Donkerstraat

Rue Sombre, in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, has 35 buildings on the Atlas map, for 39 addresses. It was mostly built between 1990 and 2009: 80% 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 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 200928
  • since 20107

No building in the street is dated by the heritage inventory: the years are estimates by district.

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
Descriptive name
Theme
Relief and landscape

Chemin creux reliant les églises des deux Woluwe, connu sous le nom de Dieweg. (remark in French, as published)

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