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.
5 of 14 - Ewald Colliery Shafts 3 & 4
This floodlight is named after the Ewald Colliery , more specifically after shafts 3 and 4 in the Resse district of Gelsenkirchen . As early as the end of the 19th century, massive winding towers were built here, becoming part of a widespread colliery network. The shafts produced coal for many decades until operations finally ceased in 1982 .
What many people don't know: The Ewald 3/4 shafts were part of the original infrastructure of the Ewald colliery in Herten , but were built in Gelsenkirchen – as a separate site with distinctive double headframes . Even today, photos bear witness to the massive industrial architecture that shaped the cityscape for decades.
The daytime facilities were largely dismantled after the closure – but the name “Ewald” lives on, not only in the neighboring future location of Herten, but also here: in a unique floodlit table .
➡️ 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.