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# Michelstadt

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

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## Every way there

- Frankfurt am Main → Michelstadt 54 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · €7–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/frankfurt-am-main-to-michelstadt) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Frankfurt+am+Main&to=Michelstadt)
- Stuttgart → Michelstadt 100 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/stuttgart-to-michelstadt) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Stuttgart&to=Michelstadt)
- Rheinmünster → Michelstadt 126 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · €16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rheinmunster-to-michelstadt) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rheinm%C3%BCnster&to=Michelstadt)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Michelstadt, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Michelstadt has

- Y Scheduled flights Frankfurt am Main (FRA), 50 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 100 timetable feeds for this country, 7 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

49.679°, 9.004°

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. Rathaus The half-timbered town hall has been a city landmark since 1484.
2. Schloss Fürstenau This chateau is a short distance north of the railway station.
3. Einhardsbasilika Carolingian church built between 824 and 827.
4. 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 in If 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Michelstadt), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-06.

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