Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former hard coal outer shaft in Heusweiler-Lummerschied, originally sunk 1937–39, enlarged and deepened in 1986 to 740 metres, with a concrete Förderturm housing the transferred winding machine of Schacht Frieda (Grube Maybach), not listed.

Former kali and rock salt shaft at Beendorf, now Schacht Marie of the Endlager für radioaktive Abfälle Morsleben (ERAM), with the original masonry shaft hall surviving on the listed complex.

Former potash mine at Menzengraben, Thuringia, whose shafts remain in active use by K+S as material and ventilation shafts within the Verbundwerk Werra.

Former French hard coal mine at Großrosseln-St. Nikolaus, the only colliery on German soil never transferred to German ownership, closed 2004 with its 1949 headframe, Fördermaschinenhaus, and HBL Grubenbahn ensemble surviving as an unprotected but recogni

Former kali and rock salt shaft at Morsleben, now the principal shaft of the Endlager für radioaktive Abfälle Morsleben (ERAM), currently in the formal decommissioning approval process.

Active potash mine at Neuhof, operating as the principal hoisting shaft of the Kaliwerk Neuhof-Ellers since 1910, deepened to 602 metres in 1953–1954 and continuing to raise approximately 12,500 tonnes of potash raw salt daily.

Former kali mine ventilation shaft at Bernburg, sunk 1912–14, sealed in 1924 and today serving as an ausziehender Wetterschacht for the active Steinsalzbergwerk Bernburg.

Active potash mine personnel shaft at Philippsthal (Werra), serving as the principal access point for underground workers at the Verbundbergwerk Werra, with the steel headframe of the Schachtanlage Heimboldshausen-Ransbach (HeRa) operating continuously.

Active UNESCO World Heritage silver mine in Freiberg, operated as the Lehr- und Forschungsbergwerk Himmelfahrt Fundgrube by TU Bergakademie Freiberg since 1919, with a 1953 steel headframe and listed 1898 machine house open to visitors.

Former kali mine at Lossa in the Finne, sunk 1909–11, which extracted only approximately 100,000 tonnes of Carnallitit before closure in 1921, its shaft sealed with a concrete cap in 1926 and the surface plant demolished.