Dössel is a village and constituent community ''(stadtteil)'' of the town of

Warburg Warburg (; Westphalian: ''Warberich'' or ''Warborg'') is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany on the river Diemel near the three-state point shared by Hessen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is in Höxter distr ...

, in the district of

Höxter Höxter () is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the left bank of the river Weser, 52 km north of Kassel. It lies the heart of the Weser Uplands, and is the seat of the Höxter district. The district of Höxter has a popul ...

in the east of the

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. Dössel has historically been known by the names of Dosele and Dozele. Dössel has a population of 682.Stadt Warburg: ''Die Warburger Stadtteile''
(Accessed 2009-09-18)

Geography

The village of Dössel is in the north-east of Kreis Höxter (within the administrative region of

Detmold Detmold () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of . It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of ...

), north of central

and south of the adjacent municipality of

Borgentreich Borgentreich () is a municipality in the Höxter district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Borgentreich lies roughly 20 km south of Brakel and 10 km northeast of Warburg. The constituent community of Borgholz lies on t ...

. The nearest cities are

Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian language, Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn (district), Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pade ...

and

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in North Hesse, northern Hesse, in Central Germany (geography), central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel (region), Kassel and the d ...

. It adjoins the Warburg communities of Daseburg, Hohenwepel and central Warburg.

History

The first reference to the village was in 1200 in the agricultural register of

Corvey Abbey The Princely Abbey of Corvey ( or ) is a former Benedictine abbey and ecclesiastical principality now in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was one of the half-dozen self-ruling '' princely abbeys'' of the Holy Roman Empire from the Late Middl ...

. In 1975 the village was incorporated into the municipality of Warburg. In

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a site south-west of Dössel was the location of

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camp

Oflag VI-B Oflag VI-B was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (''Offizierlager''), southwest of the village of Dössel (now part of Warburg) in Germany. It held French, British, Polish and other Allied officers. Camp history In 1939, ...

(also known as Warburg-Dössel), famous for the 1942 mass escape known as the "Warburg Wire Job". On the night of 27 September 1944, British bombers aiming at the railway junction in Nörde mistakenly dropped bombs on the camp, killing 90 officers. Altogether 141 prisoners died in Oflag VI-B. They are buried in the cemetery near the centre of the town and a memorial was erected in 1980. Dössel was liberated by U.S. forces in April 1945. It was in the

British zone of occupation The British occupation zone in Germany (German: ''Britische Besatzungszone Deutschlands'') was one of the Allied-occupied areas in Germany after World War II. The United Kingdom, along with the Commonwealth, was one of the three major Allied po ...

from 1945, then from 1949, following the political division of occupied Germany, Dössel became part of the

Federal Republic of West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...

until German reunification in 1990.

Transport

Dössel's nearest links to the national rail network are located in Warburg and Volkmarsen. The autobahn A44 (E331) from

Dortmund Dortmund (; ; ) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the List of cities in Germany by population, ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 614,495 inhabitants, it is the largest city ...

runs to the south-east of Dössel. The closest regional airports are KSF

Kassel-Calden Kassel Airport (formerly ''Kassel-Calden Airport'', German ''Flughafen Kassel'') is a minor international airport serving the German city of Kassel in the state of Hesse. It is located west of Calden, northwest of Kassel and is mainly used for b ...

(27 km) and PAD Paderborn-Lippstadt (46 km).

Notable people from Dössel

* Paul Mohr (born 1936), CDU politician.Landtag NRW: Profile of Paul Mohr
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