exist as well. Natural monuments Dissen's most notable landmark is a basalt knoll, the Scharfenstein, which attracts a lot of climbers because of the difficult and varied climbs available. There is also a gallery grave. Less notable, but legendary, is the Glisborn (or sometimes called Glißborn), a spring north of the Scharfenstein that was a holy place to the Chatti, who believed it had healing powers, and that it was of godly origins. In the Gudensberg Town Forest lies the Lautarius Grave, an archaeological site from the New Stone Age, built by the Wartberg culture. Scenic mountaintops near Gudensberg include the Mader Stein at the edge of the Maden Heath (Mader Heide), the Odenberg, the Nenkel and the Wartberg. Economy and infrastructure Transport Gudensberg lies on Autobahn A 49. An express busline joins Gudensberg with Kassel and Fritzlar, and at times with Bad Wildungen and Frankenberg. Grifte-Gudensberger Kleinbahn The Kleinbahn was a "small" railway, small in the operational sense; the track was standard gauge and the trains full-sized. Work on it began in 1898, and the long line, with four stations was opened on 15 July 1899. The service ran as follows: Grifte, 0.00 km Haldorf, 2.58 km Dissen, 4.25 km Gudensberg, 7.72 km Passenger services on the line were terminated on 31 December 1954. Thereafter, only a packaging machine manufacturer from Gudensberg used the line to ship his wares, and even then only weekly. The tracks were removed in 1980, and the railway embankment is nowadays used as a cycling and hiking path. Established businesses Dupon Biscuits, GTS Stanztechnik, Weber Netze, DPD Lager 34, Stolle. Education The town has three kindergartens, two primary schools (one of which is in Obervorschütz), one comprehensive school with a school observatory, a special school and a media centre. Sons and daughters of the town Matthias Beller, chemist Matthias Botthof, IFBB Pro Regiane Da Silva, IFBB Pro Hugo Brunner, librarian and historian Daniel Angelocrater, theologian Ulrich Sonnemann, philosopher Conrad Mel, theologian and pedagogue Helmut Reitze, journalist Thomas Freudenstein, footballer Otto Kastl, footballer Heinrich Reuter (1905–1984), painter Bernd Siebert (politician), politician and Member of the German Bundestag and Landtag of Hesse Literature Eduard Brauns: Wander- und Reiseführer durch Nordhessen und Waldeck, A. Bernecker Verlag, Melsungen 1971, S.303. Eckhart G. Franz: Chronik von Hessen. Chronik-Verlag, Dortmund 1991. . References External links Gudensberg Regional portal for Gudensberg Edermünde Niedenstein Gudensberg school observatory Fire brigades Chatti Schwalm-Eder-Kreis