Berlin mayor commemorate Wallfall on November 9th on Bornholmer Straße.

According to a report by www.berlin.de Pankow district mayor Dr. Cordelia Koch will meet at the former border crossing Bornholmer Straße on Thursday, November 9th to celebrate the 34th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The place of the meeting, the place of November 9 at the Bösebrücke, has symbolic importance, since the wall took place on the bridge on the night of November 9th to November 10th, 1989 and the Berliners from East and West came up again. This annual meeting serves the mayors as a memory of the events of the turning point and enables exchange with interested people.

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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 had an enormous impact on Berlin and in particular on the districts of Mitte and Pankow. The opening of the wall on Bornholmer Straße led to reunification of the separate city and to improve relationships between East and West. In the following years, large development projects were launched to revitalize the former wall zone and restore the cityscape.
The annual memorial event on November 9th at the Bösebrücke enables the citizens to deal with the history of the wall and the fall of the Berlin Wall and to appreciate the importance of this historical event for the city of Berlin. It also reminds that the division of the city is not long ago and that it is important to work for peace and unity.