Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Active intake ventilation shaft of Zakłady Górnicze Rudna, situated within the Rudna Zachodnia copper mining district near Polkowice, Lower Silesia.

Active copper mine shaft of Zakłady Górnicze Rudna, Lower Silesia, retaining surface headframe and pithead infrastructure in the Rudna Zachodnia district.

A seventeenth-century salt extraction shaft of the Wieliczka mine, backfilled in 1954, whose surviving masonry nadszybie building was renovated in 2010 and listed as a heritage structure.

A seventeenth-century salt extraction shaft now serving as the main tourist entrance to the Wieliczka Salt Mine, descending 135 metres to level III.

The oldest surviving medieval shaft of the Wieliczka Salt Mine, now serving as the entry point for the Miners' Route tourist experience.

Active main winding and man-riding shaft of the UNESCO-listed Kopalnia Soli Wieliczka salt mine, serving visitors, workers, and the underground sanatorium.

Disused hard coal mine shaft in central Wałbrzych with a standing steel headframe, the eastern winding tower of the Bolesław Chrobry complex at ul. Beethovena.

Decommissioned strut-frame headframe and winding-engine house of the western-field shaft at KWK Knurów colliery, subject to a local heritage campaign.

Active personnel and materials shaft of the Rydułtowy coal mine, deepened to 1,210 metres and serving the deep coal workings.

Historic hard coal shaft complex with surviving early-twentieth-century pithead buildings, now in private ownership and accessible only from outside.