Bornholmer Straße border crossing, Border checkpoint in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany

Bornholmer Straße border crossing was a Berlin Wall crossing between Prenzlauer Berg and Wedding, where the border ran along railway lines crossed by the Bösebrücke. The site is now marked by the Platz des 9. November 1989, a narrow 200-metre strip beside Bornholmer Straße bounded by the former rear security wall, with rusty steel bands set into the paving and a memorial stone made from a Wall segment.

The crossing existed from 1961 to 1990, connecting Prenzlauer Berg and Wedding via the Bösebrücke. On 9 November 1989, after Günter Schabowski's press conference, crowds gathered; at 9:20 p.m. guards let a few through with invalidated passports, and at 11:30 p.m. Lieutenant-Colonel Harald Jäger opened the barrier without orders. Around 20,000 people crossed within an hour.

The street takes its name from the Danish island of Bornholm, so named in 1903. Each 9 November, Berliners and the mayors of Mitte and Pankow gather at the Bösebrücke in the evening with a glass of sparkling wine to recall 1989. Beneath the bridge, a section of the Berlin Wall Trail runs past a small avenue of Japanese ornamental cherry trees, donated by a Japanese television station's Sakura Campaign.

The memorial area, the Platz des 9. November 1989, is a narrow strip about 200 metres long beside Bornholmer Straße on the eastern side of the Bösebrücke, bounded by the surviving rear security wall. Rusting steel bands run through the paving at irregular intervals, marking the events of 9 November 1989 in chronological order. The Wall Trail section with its Japanese ornamental cherry avenue lies beneath the bridge.

The memorial stone east of the bridge is cut from a segment of the Wall and was set up on the first anniversary of the fall; it was later moved to the Platz des 9. November 1989, a narrow 200-metre strip beside Bornholmer Straße bounded by the surviving rear security wall.