Dohnsen is a village administered by the Lower Saxon town of Bergen in northern Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath in North Germany.

In the woods there, near the hamlet of Wohlde, there are no less than 42 tumuli from the late Bronze Age dating from 1500 to 1200 BC, which are considered part of the Lüneburg Culture.

Its outlying villages include Wohlde, Hünenburg, Roxhüllen, Salzmoor and Siddernhausen.

Since the administrative reforms of the early 1970s, Dohnsen has been part of the municipality of Bergen.

[2] It consists of five elected representatives who, together with the chair, sit on the Bergen town council.