Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Preserved A-frame headgear and heritage memorial site marking the former Barony Colliery, last of Ayrshire's deep coal mines.

Working colliery exhibit at Beamish Museum presenting a unique listed 1855 winding engine and relocated pithead buildings from the Durham coalfield.

Reconstructed timber headframe at the entrance to Maxhütte-Haidhof, commemorating the role of brown coal mining in the early industrial development of the town.

Regional iron ore mining museum at Herdorf-Sassenroth in the Landkreis Altenkirchen, opened in 1986 in a former school building, with a 15-metre steel lattice headframe and Maschinenhaus in the outdoor precinct, a Schaustollen under the museum, and a Mine

Never-opened planned hard coal mine at Ascheberg in Westfalen, with the surviving steel headframe (Förderturm) over Donar 2 / Schacht Radbod 7 now crowned with a 2.5-tonne pink art installation as part of a landscape art project, the shafts having been ba

Former Dorsten hard coal colliery whose listed steel headframe over Schacht II and pithead buildings survive as the CreativQuartier Fürst Leopold arts and cultural venue.

Former Saar coalfield colliery at Völklingen-Luisenthal, closed 2005, with two surviving headframes standing as landmark structures in the Saar valley.

Former Ruhr colliery at Ahlen whose listed twin headframes and converted pithead buildings now form an active industrial heritage and leisure complex.

Large preserved Flemish coal mine complex now operating as the be-MINE heritage, museum, and recreation destination in Limburg.

Restored nineteenth-century timber headframe over Storgruvan at Bersbo, a copper mining heritage site near Åtvidaberg open for guided visits.