Bussche family

The von dem Bussche is the name of an old East-East-Westphalian German noble family.

The Lords von dem Bussche belonged to the nobility in the County of Ravensberg.

The first official mention of the Bussche line was in 1225 with the Lord Everhardus de Busche.

In 1390 the family acquired the estates of Ippenburg and in 1447 of Hünnefeld, both located east of Osnabrück near the town of Bad Essen.

The Lohe branch acquired further property at Thale and Wendhusen Abbey in the Principality of Anhalt-Köthen in the mid 16th century and owned it until expropriation in communist East Germany in 1945.