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 distri ...

, 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 in the centre of the Weser Uplands. The main town's population is around 15,000, and with outlying centres, about 30,0 ...

in the east of the

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North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...

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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

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), 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 the ...

. The nearest cities are

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and Kassel. 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 (german: link=no, Fürststift Corvey or Fürstabtei Corvey) is a former Benedictine abbey and ecclesiastical principality now in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was one of the half-dozen self-ruling '' princely ...

. 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 (''Offizerlager''), southwest of the village of Dössel (now part of Warburg) in Germany. Camp history In 1939, before it was a POW camp, the area was originally planned to ...

(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

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

Federal Republic of West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

until German reunification in 1990.

Transport

Dössel's nearest links to the national rail network are located in Warburg and Volkmarsen. The autobahn

A44 A44 may refer to : * A44 road (Great Britain), a road connecting Oxford, England and Aberystwyth, Wales * A44 motorway (Germany), a road connecting Aachen at the German-Belgian border and Kassel * A44 motorway (Netherlands), a motorway in the Nethe ...

(E331) from Dortmund to Kassel runs to the south-east of Dössel. The closest regional airports are KSF Kassel-Calden (27 km) and PAD Paderborn-Lippstadt (46 km).

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Notable people from Dössel

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