former mayor Hasenzahl in 1954.Musiknacht – Each year, various concert productions take place in the Old Town with many different kinds of music. Church Consecration Festival with Weinbrunnenfest – From the Old Town's many fountains, wine is given out by the many wine cellars and businesses at the Weinbrunnenfest ("Wine Fountain Festival"), which is actually Michelstadt's traditional folk festival, at which all the town's countless fountains are decorated. Michelstadt Christmas Market – this is still quite a new creation of the television-sponsored Stadtmarketing ("town marketing") of the late 1960s. The opening always takes place on the Friday before the onset of Advent. Michelstädter Theatersommer – since 2003 a yearly open-air theatrical festival, initiated by the Michelstadt "theatremakers" Alexander Kaffenberger and Dirk Daniel Zucht. Infrastructure Transport In Michelstadt the two Bundesstraßen 45 and 47 intersect, both are old trade roads from Frankfurt am Main to Augsburg and from Worms to Würzburg respectively. The town is served by a railway station on the Odenwaldbahn (RMV Line 65; Eberbach – Erbach – Michelstadt – Darmstadt – Frankfurt / Hanau). Regionalbahn, Stadtexpress and Regionalexpress trains of the VIAS GmbH stop here. There is also the special landing facility Flugplatz Michelstadt (airfield), which lies roughly 2 km from the town and is run by a club. Education Stadtschule Michelstadt (primary school) Schule am Hollerbusch (primary school) Einhardschule (primary school in the outlying centre of Steinbach) Grundschule Vielbrunn (primary school) Theodor Litt Schule (Realschule and Hauptschule) Gymnasium Michelstadt Odenwaldkreis Vocational Schools (including, among others, Berufsschule, Berufsfachschule and Berufliches Gymnasium, nowadays known as BSO – Europaschule. Notable people Rolf Beck (born 1945), music conductor Dietrich Schenk von Erbach (d. 1459), Archbishop of Mainz (from 1434 to 1459) Hartmut Barth-Engelbart (pen names include Carl Hanau and HaBE, (b. 1947), author, songwriter and graphic artist Rebecca Horn (b. 1944), artist, film director Fritz Kredel (b. 8 February 1900 in Michelstadt, d. 11 June 1973 in New York), artist and graphic designer Gabriele von Lutzau (b. 1954), sculptor, lives and works in Michelstadt Alfred Maul (1870–1942), engineer, considered the father of aerial reconnaissance Dirk Mommertz (born 1974), pianist and chamber musician Otto Rahn (1904–1939), writer, medievalist, Ariosophist, SS officer Stefan Seeger (b. 1962), chemist, university professor and entrepreneur Jessica Schwarz (b. 1977), moderator and actress Carl Weyprecht (1838–1881), explorer Seckel Löb Wormser (b. 1768 in Michelstadt, d. 1847 in Michelstadt), Kabbalist Further reading Wolfgang Hartmann: Zu den frühen urkundlichen Erwähnungen