Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former Oberbayern pitch coal mine closed 1966, with a listed reinforced-concrete winding tower by Schupp and Kremmer as the sole surviving monument.

Closed Slovak lignite mine near Čáry in the Záhorie region, suspended in 2022 after 30 years of underground production.

Former hard coal colliery at Essen-Überruhr, closed in 1968, with the steel headframe over Schacht 3 listed as a Denkmal in March 2022 and operating as an active pumping station for the RAG Zentrale Wasserhaltung, preventing groundwater flooding of the Ob

Former hard coal mine shaft at Hohndorf, one of the Ida and Helene Schächte of the Vereinigtfeld and Steinkohlenbauverein Hohndorf operations, abandoned 1932 and filled, with the former Heleneschacht area now part of the settled landscape of Hohndorf.

Victorian colliery site near Elsecar, Barnsley, preserved as a scheduled monument with surviving winding and pumping engine houses and concrete headgears, maintained by volunteer Friends group.

Category B listed steam winding engine and riveted steel headframe of Highhouse Colliery preserved in situ within an industrial estate at Auchinleck.

Working freeminer coal colliery open to the public with guided underground tours, museum, and café in the Forest of Dean.

Unique classified coal mine headframe and tower complex at Épinac, now under long-term heritage restoration by the commune.

Former Kempen coal mine at Houthalen with two surviving 71-metre steel headframes, the main building, and a new municipal administrative centre on the site.

Former hard coal shaft site in Hohndorf near Oelsnitz, one of the Ida and Helene Schächte of the Steinkohlen-AG Vereinigtfeld active from the 1870s, closed 1920/31, with the Idaschacht area now a residential neighbourhood retaining its street-name heritag