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Michelstadt

Michelstadt in the Odenwald is a town in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in southern Hesse, Germany between Darmstadt and Heidelberg.

Plan a trip to Michelstadt From Frankfurt am Main

It has a population of 16,244 people.

Get in

Getting to Michelstadt

The Odenwaldbahn serves Michelstadt with trains running roughly every hour from the Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof. The trip from Darmstadt takes roughly 1 hour. Michelstadt, like Darmstadt, is within the public transportation network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Rathaus

    The half-timbered town hall has been a city landmark since 1484.

  2. 02
    Schloss Fürstenau

    This chateau is a short distance north of the railway station.

  3. 03
    Einhardsbasilika

    Carolingian church built between 824 and 827.

  4. 04
    Kastell Würzberg

    Roman bath and castra.

Do

Things to do

Michelstädter Weihnachtsmarkt: 27 November – 20 December 2026. Classic German Christmas market, very popular and crowded. Late November until about a week before Christmas.

Eat

Where to eat

There are a number of restaurants, cafes and ice cream parlours (Eiscafe) in the Altstadt. Brauereigaststätte zum Deutschen Haus, Bahnhofstraße 20,. Drei Hasen, Braunstraße 5,. Also hotel Café Siefert, Braunstraße 17,.

How locals move

Getting around Michelstadt the local way

  • Get inIf 2-5 people are doing a day trip from Darmstadt, then a group day ticket (Gruppentageskarte) will be much more economical than buying single trip tickets.

From Wikivoyage: Michelstadt, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-06.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Roman Eisele (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.