Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former Ruhr coalfield shaft site of Zeche Franz Haniel, where the distinctive double-strut headframe over Schacht 2 survives pending a decision on heritage protection.

Former silver, copper, lead, and zinc ore mine at Goslar, the only mine in the world to have operated continuously for over a thousand years, closed in 1988 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and museum, with the original 1930s processing plant, Schacht

Former Saarland hard coal mine, now a listed leisure and cultural destination with surviving headframes and pithead buildings.

Protected industrial monument in Moers-Hochstraß retaining the oldest surviving double-strut headframe in the Ruhr, with original winding house open to visitors.

Active visitor mine and mineralogical museum in the Erzgebirge, with a working headframe, shaft descent, and nearly 800 years of documented tin mining history.

Active kali mine shaft at Zielitz, Germany's largest and one of the world's largest potash operations, with the 70-metre Schacht 1 winding tower functioning as the principal ore-hoisting headframe.

Active kali mine shaft at Zielitz serving as the principal man-riding and materials shaft of Germany's largest potash operation, with one of the largest shaft cages in Europe.

Former Prussian fiscal potash mine at Bleicherode East, with the complete Schacht I surface complex surviving and accessible, now operated for underground industrial waste disposal.

Former salt mine and former repository for approximately 126,000 containers of radioactive waste at Remlingen-Semmenstedt, now managed by the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) as the site of a legally mandated, technically unprecedented programme t

Former potash mine at Lehrte-Ilten, closed in 1994, with the listed Schacht Bergmannssegen headframe surviving on a site where K+S continues to manufacture fertiliser from imported raw materials and the underground workings have been flooded since 1998.