Shift in the shaft, but never in the heart.
⚒️ 14 floodlights. 14 mines. 14 stories.
This bar table was built from an original floodlight from the Parkstadion – made of real steel, which carried the light over the home of FC Schalke 04 for 28 years.
Carefully cleaned and restored , it still retains its traces. Every scratch and rust spot tells of great games, goals, tears, and triumphs. Of what makes Schalke what it is.
The frame is inspired by the old winding towers of Gelsenkirchen's mines. A symbol of Schalke's origins – from the Ruhr area, from work, from the community.
Schalke was built on coal. And that spirit lives on:
Work hard. Stick together. Never go under.
That is why each floodlight bears the name of a mine that was once in operation here.
04 of 14 - Dahlbusch Mine
This floodlight bears the name of the Dahlbusch Colliery – a mine with a rich history in the Rotthausen district of Gelsenkirchen. Mining began here as early as 1857 , and for many decades, Dahlbusch was one of the oldest and most influential sites in the region. Hard coal was mined here until its closure in 1966 – hard, honest, underground.
Dahlbusch is world-famous today for one story in particular: the spectacular rescue of three trapped miners in 1955. Using a specially developed rescue capsule – the legendary "Dahlbusch bomb" – the men were brought back to daylight through a narrow borehole. A Gelsenkirchen miracle that made headlines around the world.
Although the winding towers have long since disappeared, the myth lives on – in the stories, in the history of the Ruhr region and now also in this unique piece.
➡️ 50% of the proceeds go directly to “Schalke hilft!” , the charitable foundation of FC Schalke 04.
➡️ The other 50% goes into the costly restoration and preservation of such historical monuments.
A donation receipt cannot be issued because this is an auction. 50 percent of the proceeds will be donated to Schalke hilft! following the auction. The floodlights show signs of wear due to their age.