Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former underground brown coal mine in south-west Mecklenburg, operated with interruptions from 1817 to 1960, now a managed altbergbau site with shaft-filling and sealed workings and no surviving surface structures.

Former potash mine at Dietlas, Thuringia, whose shaft site later housed a mining machinery factory, now closed and cleared for a solar park.

Former hard coal mine shaft in Heusweiler-Dilsburg, operated 1845–1931 then reactivated, whose 1977/78 concrete Förderturm — the only surviving tower-type headframe in the Saarland — is a listed monument in a commercial park.

Former hard coal mine shaft in Ensdorf, the last operating surface point of the Bergwerk Saar, whose 35-metre 1917 headframe over the Saarschacht survives in the Duhamel Park along with the listed machine house now housing an interactive heritage exhibiti

Former potash mine at Giesen near Hildesheim, closed in 1987 and maintained as a reserve mine, with the Schacht Siegfried kept open and K+S pursuing a planning and approval process for restart; the spoil heap known as the Kalimandscharo remains a local la

Former potash and rock-salt mine at Lübtheen, Mecklenburg, operated 1905–1916 before drowning in a water inundation, with the sealed Schacht Friedrich Franz site remaining under industrial reuse and altbergbau monitoring.

Active former potash site at Sondershausen housing the Erlebnisbergwerk visitor mine, rock salt extraction, and underground waste disposal under GSES GmbH.

Former nuclear waste repository exploration shaft at Gorleben in the Landkreis Lüchow-Dannenberg, sunk from 1986 and now in active backfilling by the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) following the definitive exclusion of the Salzstock Gorleben fro

Former nuclear waste repository exploration shaft at Gorleben, sunk from 1986 as the second shaft of the Erkundungsbergwerk Gorleben and now in active backfilling by the BGE following the exclusion of the Salzstock Gorleben from the repository siting proc

Active rock-salt mine at Grasleben in the Landkreis Helmstedt, operating continuously as a rock-salt mine since 1926, with the Schacht Grasleben headframe and Schachthalle surviving on the active surface site of the K+S Salzwerk Braunschweig-Lüneburg.