Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former coal shaft of KWK Mysłowice, now part of an active mine-water management facility at Mysłowice.

Active personnel and materials shaft of the Polkowice-Sieroszowice copper mine, named Święty Jakub and serving as a working industrial installation.

Active exhaust ventilation shaft of Zakłady Górnicze Rudna within the Rudna Główna copper mining complex at Polkowice, Lower Silesia.

Mid-nineteenth-century hard coal shaft with surviving 1910 pithead buildings serving as a ventilation installation for the Rydułtowy colliery complex.

Surviving 1892 pithead building and 1901 steel headframe at Zabytkowa Kopalnia Ignacy, an open heritage site in Rybnik.

Historic hard coal shaft complex with surviving early-twentieth-century pithead buildings, now in private ownership and accessible only from outside.

Active personnel and materials shaft of the Rydułtowy coal mine, deepened to 1,210 metres and serving the deep coal workings.

Decommissioned strut-frame headframe and winding-engine house of the western-field shaft at KWK Knurów colliery, subject to a local heritage campaign.

Active winding shaft and surviving early headframe complex of KWK Knurów–Szczygłowice colliery, modernised to 850 metres and still in operational use.

Active intake-ventilation shaft with headframe at Ruch Wesoła, KWK Mysłowice-Wesoła colliery, Mysłowice, serving working levels to 865 metres.