History of a street · 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

Rue Sombre

In Dutch: Donkerstraat

Rue Sombre, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, has 14 buildings on the Atlas map, for 17 addresses. It was mostly built between 1970 and 1989: 64% 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 – 19899
  • 1990 – 20094
  • since 20101

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.