diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index a6f769c4..8436c0a2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -84,13 +84,17 @@ jobs:
 
       #Deployment
       - name: Deploy
-        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/dev'
+        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
         env:
           ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingKey: ${{ secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_SIGNINGKEY }}
           ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingPassword: ${{ secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_SIGNINGPASS }}
-          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_user: ${{ secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_USER }}
-          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_password: ${{ secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_PASS }}
+          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_mavenCentralUser: ${{ github.actor == 'sebastian-peter' && secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_USER ||
+            github.actor == 'danielfeismann' && secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_DANIEL_USER }}
+          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_mavenCentralPassword: ${{ github.actor == 'sebastian-peter' && secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_PASS ||
+            github.actor == 'danielfeismann' && secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_DANIEL_PASS }}
+
         run: |
+          echo "Using MavenCentral Token of GitHub Actor: ${{ github.actor }}"
           if [ "${GITHUB_REF}" == "refs/heads/main" ]; then
             currentVersion=$(./gradlew -q currentVersion)
           else
@@ -100,3 +104,18 @@ jobs:
           echo "currentVersion=$currentVersion"
 
           ./gradlew publish -PdeployVersion=$currentVersion
+
+
+      #MavenCentral Staging
+      - name: MavenCentral Staging
+        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
+        env:
+          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingKey: ${{ secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_SIGNINGKEY }}
+          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_signingPassword: ${{ secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_SIGNINGPASS }}
+          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_mavenCentralUser: ${{ github.actor == 'sebastian-peter' && secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_USER ||
+            github.actor == 'danielfeismann' && secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_DANIEL_USER }}
+          ORG_GRADLE_PROJECT_mavenCentralPassword: ${{ github.actor == 'sebastian-peter' && secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_PASS ||
+            github.actor == 'danielfeismann' && secrets.MAVENCENTRAL_DANIEL_PASS }}
+
+        run: |
+          ./gradlew stagingAtMavenCentralPortal
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 34c04fc8..0067862a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Added Marius Staudt to list of reviewers [#516](https://github.com/ie3-institute/OSMoGrid/issues/501)
 - Create `CITATION.cff` [#531](https://github.com/ie3-institute/OSMoGrid/issues/531)
 - Implemented GitHub Actions Pipeline [#545](https://github.com/ie3-institute/OSMoGrid/issues/545)
+- Added `mavenCentralPublish.gradle` to enable deployment to MavenCentral [#568](https://github.com/ie3-institute/OSMoGrid/issues/568)
 - Implementing auto-merge for dependabot PRs [#556](https://github.com/ie3-institute/OSMoGrid/issues/566)
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 2732c684..3652d75f 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ apply from: scriptsLocation + 'scoverage.gradle' // scoverage scala code coverag
 apply from: scriptsLocation + 'vcs.gradle'
 apply from: scriptsLocation + 'semVer.gradle'
 apply from: scriptsLocation + 'tscfg.gradle'
+apply from: scriptsLocation + 'uploadToMavenCentralPortal.gradle' // upload for deploy
+apply from: scriptsLocation + 'stagingAtMavenCentralPortal.gradle' // stage for deploy
 apply from: scriptsLocation + 'branchName.gradle' // checks naming scheme of branches
 
 configurations {
@@ -146,9 +148,8 @@ tasks.withType(Javadoc){
   options.encoding = 'UTF-8'
 }
 
-task printVersion {
+tasks.register("printVersion") {
   doLast {
     println project.version
   }
 }
-
diff --git a/gradle/scripts/stagingAtMavenCentralPortal.gradle b/gradle/scripts/stagingAtMavenCentralPortal.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3ed6a673
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gradle/scripts/stagingAtMavenCentralPortal.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+tasks.register('stagingAtMavenCentralPortal') {
+  group = 'publishing'
+  description = 'Stages uploaded artifacts to Maven Central Portal for manual approval'
+
+  doLast {
+    def username = project.getProperty('mavenCentralUser')
+    def password =  project.getProperty('mavenCentralPassword')
+    def deployVersion = project.findProperty('deployVersion') ?: project.version
+
+    if (!username || !password) {
+      throw new GradleException("Sonatype credentials not found. Set sonatypeUser and sonatypePassword properties or environment variables.")
+    }
+
+    // Request API for repo key
+    def repositoryString = providers.exec {
+      commandLine 'curl',
+          '-u', "${username}:${password}",
+          'https://ossrh-staging-api.central.sonatype.com/manual/search/repositories'
+    }.getStandardOutput().getAsText().get()
+
+    def repositoryGroovy = new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText(repositoryString)
+    def key = repositoryGroovy.repositories[0].key
+
+    // Stage via curl
+    def stageResult = providers.exec {
+      ignoreExitValue true
+      commandLine 'curl',
+          '-u', "${username}:${password}",
+          '-i', '-X', 'POST', "https://ossrh-staging-api.central.sonatype.com/manual/upload/repository/$key"
+    }
+
+    if (stageResult.result.get().exitValue == 0) {
+      println "✓ Staging successful!"
+      println "Check status at: https://central.sonatype.com/publishing/deployments"
+    } else {
+      throw new GradleException("Staging failed")
+    }
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gradle/scripts/uploadToMavenCentralPortal.gradle b/gradle/scripts/uploadToMavenCentralPortal.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..eeb68e2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gradle/scripts/uploadToMavenCentralPortal.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+/* Maven publish - start */
+
+tasks.register("sourcesJar", Jar) {
+  archiveClassifier.set("sources")
+  from sourceSets.main.allJava
+}
+
+tasks.register("javadocJar", Jar) {
+  dependsOn tasks.named("javadoc", Javadoc)
+  archiveClassifier.set("javadoc")
+  from { tasks.named("javadoc", Javadoc).get().destinationDir }
+}
+
+if (project.hasProperty('mavenCentralUser') && project.hasProperty('mavenCentralPassword') && project.hasProperty('deployVersion')) {
+
+  // snapshot version differs from normal version
+  String versionString = project.getProperty('deployVersion')
+
+  publishing {
+    publications {
+      create("mavenJava", MavenPublication) {
+
+        versionMapping {
+          // resolves dynamic versioning to current version number
+          usage('java-api') {
+            fromResolutionOf('runtimeClasspath')
+          }
+          usage('java-runtime') {
+            fromResolutionResult()
+          }
+        }
+        pom {
+          description = 'OSMoGrid - a tool to generate life like electrical grid models based on publicly available data, mainly OpenStreetMap.'
+          name = 'OSMoGrid'
+          url = 'https:github.com/ie3-institute/OSMoGrid'
+          organization {
+            name = 'Institute of Energy Systems, Energy Efficiency and Energy Economics (ie3)/TU Dortmund University'
+            url = 'https:www.ie3.tu-dortmund.de/'
+          }
+          issueManagement {
+            system = 'GitHub'
+            url = 'https:github.com/ie3-institute/OSMoGrid/issues'
+          }
+          licenses {
+            license {
+              name = 'BSD 3-Clause License'
+              url = 'https:github.com/ie3-institute/OSMoGrid/blob/master/LICENSE'
+            }
+          }
+          developers {
+            developer {
+              organization = "Institute of Energy Systems, Energy Efficiency and Energy Economics (ie3)/TU Dortmund University"
+              organizationUrl = "https:ie3.etit.tu-dortmund.de"
+            }
+          }
+          scm {
+            connection = 'scm:git:git:github.com/ie3-institute/OSMoGrid.git'
+            developerConnection = 'scm:git:ssh:github.com:ie3-institute/OSMoGrid.git'
+            url = 'https:github.com/ie3-institute/OSMoGrid'
+          }
+        }
+
+        removeTestDependenciesFromPom(pom)
+        groupId = group
+        artifactId = 'OSMoGrid'
+        version = versionString
+
+        from components.java
+        artifact sourcesJar
+        artifact javadocJar
+      }
+    }
+    repositories {
+      maven {
+        name = "MavenCentral"
+        url = "https://ossrh-staging-api.central.sonatype.com/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/"
+        credentials {
+          username = project.findProperty('mavenCentralUser')
+          password = project.findProperty('mavenCentralPassword')
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    signing {
+      useInMemoryPgpKeys(
+          findProperty('signingKey') as String,
+          findProperty('signingPassword') as String
+          )
+      sign publications.mavenJava
+    }
+  }
+
+  tasks.named("generatePomFileForMavenJavaPublication") {
+    destination = layout.buildDirectory.file("generated-pom.xml").get().asFile
+  }
+}
+
+def removeTestDependenciesFromPom(pom) {
+  pom.withXml {
+    def root = asNode()
+    // eliminate test-scoped dependencies (no need in maven central POMs)
+    root.dependencies.removeAll { dep ->
+      dep.scope == "test"
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/* Maven publish - end */