testation of the town of Zell, from about 1200, with the oldest depiction of a winemaker. There are a side altar and a tabernacle with a Christ torso from the 13th or 14th century, the time of transition from Romanesque to Gothic, probably of the Riemenschneider school.
In the outlying centre of Merl stands Saint Michael�s Parish Church, until 1805 the Franciscan monastery church. The church on the thoroughfare near the Moselle has on the High Altar an �Antwerp retable� from about 1520. The sacristy was built with one support to a nearly square floor plan. In the parish hall, remnants of mediaeval wall paintings have been preserved, and the old dormitory�s roof frame in the monastery wing, which is not open to the public, is said to be one of the few mediaeval roof constructions still preserved in Germany.
The old Romanesque Saint Michael�s Parish Church, a hall church, was torn down in 1823 after the monastery church was taken over. The old Romanesque tower stood preserved on today�s graveyard in Merl.
� Weinfest der Zeller Schwarze Katz (wine festival), always on the last weekend in June, one of the first wine festivals of the year along the Moselle.
� Hahnenkaffee in Zell
� St.-Jakobus-Weinkirmes (wine fair) in Zell-Kaimt, last weekend in July
� Weinfest (wine festival) in Zell-Merl, second weekend in August
� Keltisches Weingelage (�Celtic Wine Binge�) in Zell-Kaimt, last weekend in August
� R�merstra�enfest (�Roman Road Festival�), mid August
� Stra�enfest der Zeller Turmsch�tzen (�Zell Tower Marksmen�s Street Festival�), second weekend in September
� Public wine-tasting at the community hall � Roman wine revelry third weekend in September
� Advent markets every first and second weekend in Advent
