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Former hard coal mine shaft in the Neunkirchen coalfield, part of the Grube König-Dechen complex, closed 1968, with the site cleared in the 1970s and the former Allenfeldschacht area now part of a commercial and residential zone in Neunkirchen.
606 – Grube Luisenthal — Alsbachschacht
Mine core
Former hard coal mine shaft in Saarbrücken-Burbach, sunk 1954 to serve the Alsbachfeld of Grube Luisenthal, scene of the catastrophic 1962 explosion killing 299 miners, and demolished after the closure of the Luisenthal complex.
535 – Zeche Auguste Victoria — Schacht 1
Partial mine site - headframes and associated buildings
Former hard coal colliery shaft at Marl-Hüls, one of the two founding shafts of Zeche Auguste Victoria, with its headframe surviving at the Victoriastraße shaft precinct.
536 – Zeche Auguste Victoria — Schacht 2
Partial mine site - headframes and associated buildings
Former hard coal colliery shaft at Marl-Hüls, the second of the two founding shafts of the Zeche Auguste Victoria sunk from 1900 and in operation 1906–1966, located immediately adjacent to Schacht 1 on the Victoriastraße, with the headframe surviving.
503 – Grube Leonie
Isolated headframe
Reconstructed timber headframe at the entrance to Maxhütte-Haidhof, commemorating the role of brown coal mining in the early industrial development of the town.
538 – Kreisbergbaumuseum Sassenroth
Museum site - headframe and associated buildings
Regional iron ore mining museum at Herdorf-Sassenroth in the Landkreis Altenkirchen, opened in 1986 in a former school building, with a 15-metre steel lattice headframe and Maschinenhaus in the outdoor precinct, a Schaustollen under the museum, and a Mine
539 – Bergwerk Donar
Isolated headframe
Never-opened planned hard coal mine at Ascheberg in Westfalen, with the surviving steel headframe (Förderturm) over Donar 2 / Schacht Radbod 7 now crowned with a 2.5-tonne pink art installation as part of a landscape art project, the shafts having been ba
550 – Zeche Fürst Leopold — Schacht II
Repurposed site - headframe and associated buildings
Former Dorsten hard coal colliery whose listed steel headframe over Schacht II and pithead buildings survive as the CreativQuartier Fürst Leopold arts and cultural venue.
82 – Grube Luisenthal
Isolated headframes
Former Saar coalfield colliery at Völklingen-Luisenthal, closed 2005, with two surviving headframes standing as landmark structures in the Saar valley.
81 – Bergwerk Westfalen
Repurposed site - headframes and associated buildings
Former Ruhr colliery at Ahlen whose listed twin headframes and converted pithead buildings now form an active industrial heritage and leisure complex.