Dressel

The Dressel family history begins with Benedictus de Benehusin, who lived in the middle of the 11th Century.

It is located in the hill and forest area of Northeastern Hessen, between Fulda and Schwalm in the Gemeinde Ludwigsau on the stream called Rohrbach, in the former Landkreis Rotenburg [de].

The documented history of German knighthood as a class begins with the death of Emperor Otto II in 983 AD, because, by this time, social customs and laws existed that defined this group.

However, some of their traditions date back not only to the court of Charlemagne the Great, 742-814 AD, but also to the knightly class of the Roman Empire.

[2] Rule, born circa 1270, was a member of the von Bennhausen family who immigrated to Saxony, as did so many knights from Thuringia in the late part of the 1200s.