Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former gold and silver mining shaft in the Banská Štiavnica UNESCO World Heritage district, with a surviving headframe standing within the inscribed area.

Multi-award-winning heritage museum and the largest preserved tin mining site in Britain, managing an underground tour and surface complex of an active mine closed in 1990.

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.

Scheduled Monument steel tandem headgear from an 1864 colliery, the last deep coal mine site in Shropshire, now within a naturist club and grounds at Priorslee.

Former colliery site preserving the Grade I listed Hetty Pit engine house and headframe, home to the oldest working deep-mining winding engine in Wales, under active volunteer restoration.

Former fluorspar mine near Rookhope retaining County Durham's last surviving steel winding headframe, saved from demolition in 2017.

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