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.
12 of 14 - Scholven Mine
This floodlight bears the name of the Scholven Colliery – a mine with a unique character in the north of Gelsenkirchen, in the Scholven district of the same name. Hard coal was mined here from 1897. What began as a small operation quickly developed into an important mining site – and from the 1920s onwards, the heart of the entire "Scholven/Polsum" complex.
Scholven stood not only for coal, but also for chemicals: The large hydrogenation plant was built in the immediate vicinity, and later the Scholven power plant , still in operation today, became a symbol of the region's energy supply. Coal, electricity, industry – here everything was one.
Mining at the Scholven mine ended in 1967 , but the site remained an important industrial location for decades. Today, street names, the power plant, and many stories from the district recall the mine that once shaped so many lives.
➡️ 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.