Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former potash and rock-salt mine at Hänigsen near Uetze, closed in 1997 as the world's deepest potash mine at 1,525 metres, with the Schacht Riedel headframe surviving as the principal landmark of the site, which is subject to a current LBEG review of flo

Unfinished former potash shaft site at Rockensußra near Ebeleben, where planned sinking reached only a trial depth before the mine closed, leaving the site largely cleared.

Former kali mine shaft at Teutschenthal, closed in 1982 after 80 years of kali and Steinsalz extraction, now undergoing formal Verwahrung as part of the GTS Grube Teutschenthal Sicherungs-GmbH underground backfill operation.

Sealed shaft site of the Gewerkschaft Bernhardshall near Leimbach, now serving as an intake ventilation shaft for the active Erlebnisbergwerk Merkers of K+S Minerals and Agriculture GmbH.

Former potash colliery at Sollstedt with its headframe, winding house, pithead baths, and miners' railway station surviving as an accessible industrial heritage site.

Sealed former potash shaft site at Springen in the Rhön hills, where the Kaliseilbahn Springen–Dorndorf ropeway once carried salt to the Werra valley below.

Former kali mine shaft at Teutschenthal-Bahnhof, the founding shaft of the Kaliwerk Krügershall AG (1905), sunk to 733 metres, whose headframe was demolished in 1994 and whose underground workings are now subject to GTS backfill and stabilisation operatio

Continuously active potash mine at Unterbreizbach, with its 1942 headframe still standing, currently operating as the principal hoisting shaft of the K+S Verbundwerk Werra.

Largely demolished former potash mine site near Menteroda in the Unstruttal, where the three shafts of the Gewerkschaft Volkenroda reached extraordinary depths of approximately 1,000 metres.

The von Velsen I shaft complex at Bleicherode East, a listed ensemble and the only surviving Prussian state potash surface complex with largely original interior fittings, now used for underground waste disposal.