Dössel is a village and constituent community (stadtteil) of the town of Warburg, in the district of Höxter in the east of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

[1] The village of Dössel is in the north-east of Kreis Höxter (within the administrative region of Detmold), north of central Warburg and south of the adjacent municipality of Borgentreich.

In World War II a site 5 km (3.1 mi) south-west of Dössel was the location of prisoner of war camp Oflag VI-B (also known as Warburg-Dössel), famous for the 1942 mass escape known as the "Warburg Wire Job".

[2][3][4] 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.

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