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515 – Kaliwerk Wintershall — Schacht Grimberg
Operational site - headframe and extensive buildings
Active potash mine and main processing facility of the Verbundbergwerk Werra at Heringen, operating from the Schacht Grimberg (Schacht Wintershall) since 1903, continuously producing potash and magnesium salts as the principal site of the K+S Werk Werra.
505 – Schieferbergwerk Lehesten
Museum site - headframe and associated buildings
Former roofing-slate quarry and mine at Lehesten, now a technical monument and open heritage park with the sole surviving horse-gin shaft installation in Europe, set within a nature reserve.
532 – Grube Sicilia — Aufbereitung Meggen
Partial mine site
Former ore preparation and flotation works of the Meggener Bergbau at Lennestadt-Meggen, part of the Sachtleben Grube Sicilia complex that operated from 1852 to 1992, with the ore processing infrastructure once making Meggen the largest zinc-concentrate p
622 – Berzdorfer Werk — Skip-Schacht
Partial mine site - headframe and associated buildings
Surviving skip headframe and winding house from the former Berzdorf brown coal workings, now beside the Berzdorfer See leisure lake.
587 – Steinsalzbergwerk Borth — Schacht I
Operational site - headframe and extensive buildings
Active rock salt mine at Rheinberg-Borth, Europe's largest of its kind, with Schacht I equipped with a 1964 concrete winding tower still in continuous production for K+S Minerals and Agriculture.
605 – Bergwerk Saar — Südschacht
Mine core
Former hard coal ventilation shaft near Walpershofen in Heusweiler, sunk in the 1970s by the Grube Ensdorf as an ausziehender Wetterschacht after the Dilsburg site was superseded, and closed in 2012.
93 – Zeche Minister Achenbach
Repurposed site
Former Ruhr hard coal colliery at Lünen-Brambauer, with a surviving headframe at Schacht 4 bearing the Colani-Ei and converted to the LÜNTEC technology centre.
621 – Fundgrube Türk — Türkschacht
Isolated headframe
Former silver, cobalt, and uranium mine at Zschorlau, whose 18-metre 1888 iron Fördergerüst — the oldest surviving iron headframe in the western Erzgebirge — stands as a listed monument and Flächennaturdenkmal at the northern edge of the village.
83 – Grube Velsen
Museum site - headframe and extensive buildings
Former Saar hard coal colliery at Saarbrücken-Klarenthal, operating today as an open visitor mine with listed 1915 headframe, preserved 1916/17 steam winding engine, and 800 metres of active underground workings.
Former hard coal shaft site in Hohndorf near Oelsnitz, part of the Steinkohlen-AG Bockwa-Hohndorf-Vereinigtfeld from 1872, whose Schacht I was deepened to 1,200 metres in 1942 as the Rudolf-Breitscheid-Schacht — briefly the deepest coal shaft in Europe —