Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former manganese ore and limestone mine at Wetzlar-Niedergirmes, now a heritage site maintained by the Förderverein Grube Malapertus e.V., preserving one of only two surviving headframes in the Lahn-Dill mining region, with guided surface tours and planne

Former hard coal colliery at Mariadorf, closed in 1962, with surface structures demolished and only the spoil heap surviving as a visible remnant.

Surviving iron mine headframe structure in the Grängesberg mining area, part of the former Bergslagen iron ore field closed in 1989.

Disused 45-metre lead mine headframe at Korsnäs, Ostrobothnia, now the centrepiece of a heritage visitor area.

Historic hard coal mine in Zabrze, now a major heritage museum open to visitors at depths of 170, 320 and 355 metres, part of the Muzeum Górnictwa Węglowego w Zabrzu.

Surviving pump shaft and 1842 headframe building at Sala Silvergruva, an active heritage mine and visitor attraction.

Former Whitehaven coal colliery on the Cumbrian coast, with surviving scheduled monument engine house and No. 5 shaft headframe, previously operated as a museum that closed in 2016.

Surviving listed headframe at Haisnes, the last concrete headframe of the Mines de Lens type, inscribed as a monument historique and UNESCO World Heritage site.

Former deep coal mine near Doncaster, closed in 2015, with two Grade II listed steel and concrete headstocks surviving on a vacant site with heritage redevelopment proposals pending.

Former hard coal colliery at Bergkamen-Oberaden, active 1943–2001, with the 73-metre steel-lattice headframe over Schacht 2 standing until March 2021 before demolition for the Wasserstadt Aden redevelopment project; the site is now being developed as a wa