Holland colliery, shafts 1 and 2 !

In Ueckendorf - today it is a suburb of Gelsenkirchen (Germany) - the Holland colliery produced coal until 1983. Today only the both shaft towers of the Malakoff type are left, most of the other buildings have been destroyed after closing the colliery.

(Source: Hermann, W. u. G.: Die alten Zechen an der Ruhr, Die Blauen Bücher, 4. Auflage).