Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former iron ore mine at Sulzbach-Rosenberg, closed in 1974, with the listed steel headframe of the Annaschacht surviving as the sole above-ground relic of iron ore extraction in the city, now an open heritage site with a free permanent exhibition.

Former ventilation shaft at Neunkirchen-Wiebelskirchen, equipped since 1960 with the transferred 1900 Fachwerk headframe from Grube Frankenholz Schacht III — the second-oldest surviving headframe in the Saarland — now serving as a cultural event space man

The world's largest mining museum, founded 1930 in Bochum, with a visitor mine, four permanent exhibition tours, and a landmark 71.4-metre headframe from the former Zeche Germania.

Former Saar hard coal colliery at Quierschied-Göttelborn, closed 2000, now a redeveloped industrial heritage and education campus featuring three headframes from different eras including the world's tallest mining headframe.

Former hard coal colliery at Alsdorf, now partly preserved as heritage site with surviving headframe, pithead buildings, and the ENERGETICON energy and mining museum.

Former lead, zinc, and silver ore mine at Overath-Steinenbrück in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, closed in 1978, with the listed steel headframe of the Hauptschacht surviving as the Wahrzeichen of the Golfclub Der Lüderich and the former Fördermaschinenh

Former manganese ore and limestone mine at Wetzlar-Niedergirmes, now a heritage site maintained by the Förderverein Grube Malapertus e.V., preserving one of only two surviving headframes in the Lahn-Dill mining region, with guided surface tours and planne

Former hard coal colliery at Mariadorf, closed in 1962, with surface structures demolished and only the spoil heap surviving as a visible remnant.

Former hard coal colliery at Bergkamen-Oberaden, active 1943–2001, with the 73-metre steel-lattice headframe over Schacht 2 standing until March 2021 before demolition for the Wasserstadt Aden redevelopment project; the site is now being developed as a wa

Former Oberbayern pitch coal mine closed 1966, with a listed reinforced-concrete winding tower by Schupp and Kremmer as the sole surviving monument.