Kellerei Michelstadt, Former town castle and town museum in Michelstadt, Germany

Kellerei Michelstadt is a former town castle whose surviving complex was originally the outer bailey; the core castle is lost. The main building on the south side of the rectangular courtyard bears the date 1506 and backs onto the town wall, with walls 1.60 metres thick at that point. Its central section shows 16th-century timber framing, while the side wings were added in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The site began as a Frankish manor; Einhard received the Michelstadt mark from Louis the Pious on 11 January 815 and probably had buildings erected here. A stone house was built around or after 950 under Abbot Gerbodo of Lorsch. In 1307 Count Palatine Rudolf I destroyed town and castle; the Schenken of Erbach rebuilt it, documented again by 1344, and from 1517 new buildings turned it into residences and offices, first called Kellerei in 1532.

The name Kellerei appears in a document from 1532, when the complex served the Counts of Erbach for residence and administration. Today the cellar of the Speicherbau hosts markets and concerts during the Michelstädter Musiknacht, and the site houses the Stadtmuseum Michelstadt.

The monument is located in the old town and can be easily found while walking through Michelstadt's historic streets. Information about the building is available through regional heritage databases and local tourism resources.

The name Kellerei comes from the site's use as an administrative cellar of the Schenken von Erbach, first recorded in a document of 1532. The cellar of the Speicherbau now hosts markets and concerts during the Michelstädter Musiknacht.