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Franciscan friar Hippolytus Boehlen was born in 1878.
He described his childhood and youth in Doessel in the 1922 published book:
„A youth filled with sun“.
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After the attendance of primary school and grammar school he joined the Franciscan order, in 1905 he was ordained. Between 1906 and 1916 he was a teacher in the order college in Watersleijde/Netherlands. In 1921 he was transferred to Hadamar. On the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the foundation of the town he wrote the festival performance „Johann Ludwig“ for which he became honorary citizen of Hadamar. In 1928 he took over the leadership of the order’s printing office in Fulda. When the national socialists closed the monastery in 1941 he became a pilgrim for two years time until he found a new home near Rottenburg. When the Frauenberg monastery was reopened after the Second World War he could spend his old age here. He died the 7th September 1950.
Steyler father Heinrich Emmerich was born in Doessel in
1901. After primary school he attended the Warburg Marianum grammar school
from 1913. In 1922 he passed his examinations.
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In 1952 he was given the direction of the cartographic department of the Vatican which he had held for more than 30 years. In 1968 a new edition of the „Atlas Hierarchicus“ appeared which curiously contains Doessel. In 1979 Pope John Paul II honoured him and his complete works in a diploma. He worked in Rome until 1983.
In 1984 he died in St. Wendel (Saarland). At his funeral citizens of Doessel were present in large numbers. At the graveside an older villager told for everyone audible: „Well, Heinrich, now you’re lying on a mountain so high that you can look as far as Doessel.
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