dogs got the name Bullenbeisser because of the work they did. So called Bärenbeisser (= bear biting dogs) were a little bit taller than the Bullenbeisser and were used for hunting and fighting with the bear.
Bear hunting by Karl Andreas Ruthard (1630 - 1703)
The Bullenbeisser of Brabant got his name from the province Brabant in northern Belgium and was described as a medium sized dog. He was used for hunting and coursing bears. The Bullenbeisser of Brabant is said to be the direct ancestor of the Boxer. During the French Revolution when the great Courts were dissolved and the hunts belonging to a master were over, also the importance of coursing dogs diminished. The Bullenbeisser of Danzig already wasn’t mentioned in dog books on and after 1783. However, Bullenbeisser still has been bred pure on the electoral Hessian Court until 1866. The pack was solid-colored yellow. In 1805, Georg Franz Dietrich of Winkell describes Bullenbeisser or Bärenbeisser as not too big, but strong and courageous, with broad short heads, “they catch all, on which they are coursed, but are heavy”. Still in 1885 there is an ad in the “Suisse Papers for Cynology”, N° 3, vol. 1, January 30: “A magnificent, shining black dog, Bullenbeisser, about 30 months old, 26’’ at the shoulders, suitable for a country seat.” Tschopp-Spörr, Handlung, Sursee.
However, the smaller Bullenbeisser has been bred as a house dog in smaller stocks. When from 1830 the English Bulldog has been imported to Germany, it has been crossed with the Bullenbeisser of Brabant. Therefore, on the one side you got the type of Boxer, on the other side the white color too. In1860, the term “Boxer” has been used for these crossings for the first time.
It’s supposed the Great Bullenbeisser to be an ancestor of the Great Dane. Others again think that they are the result of a crossing of the English Mastiff with the Greyhound. Probably both versions are correct, for English Mastiffs and Mastiff crossings had been exported from England to the continent. In England the Mastiff had been crossed with the Greyhound and eventually with the Irish Wolfhound too to create a faster and more agile hunting dog. However, these dogs never got popular in England, but in Germany they found their fanciers. In the early German literature they were described as “English, Danish or Ulmer Dogges”. Together with the Bullenbeisser they might have been involved in the breeding of those dogs, which later got known as “Great Dane”.
Emperor Charles V with his Ulmer Dogge, ainting by J. Seisenegger, 1530
It’s a fact that there was hunted with Bullenbeisser like dogs in the Netherlands until the 1930’s, preferred badger and wild boar. Today this kind of hunting is banned there.
Successful boar hunting in Holland (before 1939)
So what seems more likely that Boers and German settlers took the Bullenbeisser with them to South Africa, where he was used as one of the breeds to develop the Boerboel and the Rhodesian Ridgeback.
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