Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Active potash mine at Neuhof in the Landkreis Fulda, operating as the Kaliwerk Neuhof-Ellers of the K+S group since the 1950s, with Schacht II (Ellers) serving as the principal personnel access shaft at approximately 533 metres depth.

Active potash mine shaft at Mühlwärts near Unterbreizbach, sunk 1955–1963 to 829 metres, currently serving as the manriding and material shaft of the K+S Verbundwerk Werra.

Active ventilation shaft at Ilberstedt, originally a kali mine sunk in 1911 and abandoned in the 1920s, reopened in 1982 as a Frischwetterschacht for the Steinsalzbergwerk Bernburg–Gröna.

Former hard coal colliery whose surviving pithead buildings and listed headframe at Schacht 3 are preserved within the OLGA-Park public landscape.

The original first shaft of the Werra potash district at Kaiseroda, now serving as a ventilation shaft for the active Erlebnisbergwerk Merkers visitor mine of K+S Minerals and Agriculture GmbH.

Former iron ore mine at Salzgitter-Bleckenstedt, closed in 1976, now being converted by the BGE into Germany's first fully licensed underground repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste, with the Schacht Konrad 1 headframe visible from

Sealed former potash shaft site of the Gewerkschaft Lohra in Obergebra, where the underground workings served as a Heeresmunitionsanstalt from 1935 and munitions were cleared after 1945.

Former hard coal outer shaft in Heusweiler-Lummerschied, originally sunk 1937–39, enlarged and deepened in 1986 to 740 metres, with a concrete Förderturm housing the transferred winding machine of Schacht Frieda (Grube Maybach), not listed.

Former kali and rock salt shaft at Beendorf, now Schacht Marie of the Endlager für radioaktive Abfälle Morsleben (ERAM), with the original masonry shaft hall surviving on the listed complex.

Former potash mine at Menzengraben, Thuringia, whose shafts remain in active use by K+S as material and ventilation shafts within the Verbundwerk Werra.