Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former potash mine shaft at Heringen (Werra), active for only twelve years before closure under the 1923 Stillegungsverordnung, now surviving as a ventilation shaft with red-brick surface buildings, central workshop, and the Werra-Kalibergbau-Museum occup

Former brown coal mine near Lübtheen in south-west Mecklenburg, operated from 1817 to 1838 as the Friedrich-Franz-Zeche, now a buried and closed altbergbau site with no surviving surface structures.

Former hard coal auxiliary shaft in Heusweiler-Holz, sunk 1912 as a Westfeld Seilfahrtsschacht for Grube Göttelborn, deepened three times to 594 metres and last active 1994, with the 1937 Fachwerk headframe and Fördermaschinenhaus surviving as listed monu

Active potash mine shaft at Mühlwärts near Unterbreizbach, sunk 1955–1963 to 829 metres, currently serving as the manriding and material shaft of the K+S Verbundwerk Werra.

Active potash mine at Neuhof in the Landkreis Fulda, operating as the Kaliwerk Neuhof-Ellers of the K+S group since the 1950s, with Schacht II (Ellers) serving as the principal personnel access shaft at approximately 533 metres depth.

Active ventilation shaft at Ilberstedt, originally a kali mine sunk in 1911 and abandoned in the 1920s, reopened in 1982 as a Frischwetterschacht for the Steinsalzbergwerk Bernburg–Gröna.

Former hard coal colliery whose surviving pithead buildings and listed headframe at Schacht 3 are preserved within the OLGA-Park public landscape.

The original first shaft of the Werra potash district at Kaiseroda, now serving as a ventilation shaft for the active Erlebnisbergwerk Merkers visitor mine of K+S Minerals and Agriculture GmbH.

Former iron ore mine at Salzgitter-Bleckenstedt, closed in 1976, now being converted by the BGE into Germany's first fully licensed underground repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste, with the Schacht Konrad 1 headframe visible from

Sealed former potash shaft site of the Gewerkschaft Lohra in Obergebra, where the underground workings served as a Heeresmunitionsanstalt from 1935 and munitions were cleared after 1945.