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638 – Gewerkschaft Bernhardshall — Schacht Salzungen
Operational site
Sealed shaft site of the Gewerkschaft Bernhardshall near Leimbach, now serving as an intake ventilation shaft for the active Erlebnisbergwerk Merkers of K+S Minerals and Agriculture GmbH.
629 – Kalibergwerk Sollstedt — Schacht Sollstedt
Extensive mine site - headframe and extensive buildings
Former potash colliery at Sollstedt with its headframe, winding house, pithead baths, and miners' railway station surviving as an accessible industrial heritage site.
Sealed former potash shaft site at Springen in the Rhön hills, where the Kaliseilbahn Springen–Dorndorf ropeway once carried salt to the Werra valley below.
600 – Grube Teutschenthal — Schacht Teutschenthal
Repurposed site
Former kali mine shaft at Teutschenthal-Bahnhof, the founding shaft of the Kaliwerk Krügershall AG (1905), sunk to 733 metres, whose headframe was demolished in 1994 and whose underground workings are now subject to GTS backfill and stabilisation operatio
643 – Gewerkschaft Sachsen-Weimar — Schacht Unterbreizbach I
Operational site - headframe and extensive buildings
Continuously active potash mine at Unterbreizbach, with its 1942 headframe still standing, currently operating as the principal hoisting shaft of the K+S Verbundwerk Werra.
636 – Gewerkschaft Volkenroda
Mine core
Largely demolished former potash mine site near Menteroda in the Unstruttal, where the three shafts of the Gewerkschaft Volkenroda reached extraordinary depths of approximately 1,000 metres.
631 – Kalibergwerk Bleicherode — Schacht von Velsen I
Repurposed site
The von Velsen I shaft complex at Bleicherode East, a listed ensemble and the only surviving Prussian state potash surface complex with largely original interior fittings, now used for underground waste disposal.
515 – Kaliwerk Wintershall — Schacht Grimberg
Operational site - headframe and extensive buildings
Active potash mine and main processing facility of the Verbundbergwerk Werra at Heringen, operating from the Schacht Grimberg (Schacht Wintershall) since 1903, continuously producing potash and magnesium salts as the principal site of the K+S Werk Werra.
505 – Schieferbergwerk Lehesten
Museum site - headframe and associated buildings
Former roofing-slate quarry and mine at Lehesten, now a technical monument and open heritage park with the sole surviving horse-gin shaft installation in Europe, set within a nature reserve.
532 – Grube Sicilia — Aufbereitung Meggen
Partial mine site
Former ore preparation and flotation works of the Meggener Bergbau at Lennestadt-Meggen, part of the Sachtleben Grube Sicilia complex that operated from 1852 to 1992, with the ore processing infrastructure once making Meggen the largest zinc-concentrate p