Doessel is situated in the centre of the fertile Warburger Boerde. This area has already been settled since the Neolithic age. Several finds from this era make a human settlement on the village grounds at that time very probable.
As early as the year 1000 the once nearby - today vanished - hamlets Dalpenhusen (near Riepen Estate) and Sielheim (between Doessel and the Desenberg mountain) were mentioned. Only the field-name „Sielheimer Feld“ reminds today to the perished places.
The name Doessel itself appears for the first time about the year 1200 in a property register of Corvey Abbey. On the occasion of a reorganisation of ecclesastical districts in the year 1231 the vicarage Doessel is described to be affiliated with the parish Eissen until 1230. Now it becomes a part of the Arch deaconry Warburg. Furthermore the villager Hermannus de Dusele is mentioned in documents of 1286 and 1291.
The surname von Doessel has been known since the year 1200 from councillors of Borgenreich and Warburg, where Hermann von Doessel was mayor of the Old Town in 1434 and in 1436. He was considerably involved in the Union of Warburg Old and New Town by means of the „Grote Breff“ (Great letter) in the year 1436.
Even later Corvey Abbey had possessions in Doessel, it was partly enfeoffed the families von Pappenheim and von Geismar and partly sold to Abdinghof abbey in Paderborn and the nearby Hardehausen abbey. The rest belonged to the counts of Waldeck and Everstein as well as to the families von Niehausen and von Spiegel. 1416 members of the family von Spiegel mortgaged a property in Doessel to Hardehausen abbey for four years in return for a loan of 200 rhenanian guilders. The even today used field-names Riehöfe and Pöppelhöfe could be clues for the existence of important estates in the Doessel area.
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