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Since the late Middle Ages inns for the accomodation of people and animals were established in towns and in places located on trading routes. Since Doessel was out of the way of those routes the existence of inns at that time is quite unlikely. But already in 1738 the existence of an inn can certainly be proved.
The chronicle reports in 1842 that David Schoenfeld intended to install a public bar in the first school building underneath the church. In 1880 a man named Koch applied for the installation of a public bar in the „Paradise quarter“ (opposite today’s playground).
The Schoenfeld family still ran a public bar until the
20th century. Later on a grocer’s shop was established in the same building,
too. The „Post office inn“ and the shop were among others run by the families
Wiemers, later Sprenger (also post-office clerk), Gretenkord, Henneke and
Roeder. The present-day owner is Josef Koch.
A second grocer’s shop was run underneath the church by the Bellermann family until 1962. Their son-in-law Wilhelm Lessmann carried on this shop not far away from the first one until 1976.
Since 1906 an auxiliary post office was situated in Doessel of which August Sprenger was in charge. Between 1944 and 1950 his daughter Elisabeth took over the office. Since 1950 Franz Emmerich was in charge who was followed by Wilhelm Lessmann in 1962. Since 1975 his wife Wilma took over the post office. In 1995 the Doessel post office was definitely closed. Today the only letter-box of the village is curiously enough located again on the building where the postal history began, on the „Post office inn“.
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