The history of the Schodde-Götker Family in Lembruch Lake Duemmer
800 years in the County of Hanover Germany and 152 years in Australia and USA
The Schodde-Götker Family lived over 800 years on the shores of Lake Dümmer, North Germany. They were farmers, millers and fishermen on the shores of Hanover's second largest lakes. Today the site is a resort since 1926 (www.schoddenhof.com). The name Goeteker (Götker) appeared already around the year 800 on the oldest documents of the time of Charlemagne, the Schodde name (or first Chadde or Chode) appeared for the first time in 1530 when the estate heiress married a soldier whose name had been germanized from the French Chaudet (a family from the French speaking part of Switzerland) to Schodde. Today the family has again the Swiss nationality because the last male heir took the Citizenship of the Canton of Vaud/Lausanne in the Western part of Switzerland in 1988.
In 1855 the oldest son of Georg Friedrich Schodde Krone,(Hanseatic merchant who had 12 children with Anna Dorothea Schodde) and also the second eldest son (who died on the ship), went to Adelaide Australia. Their sister Margarethe became a governess of noble and also Royal families in London and Paris and even in New York USA, another brother went to Ohio USA in 1851. The graveyard of the Schodde family in Burlage-Lake Dümmer still has the grave stones of the 17th century on it.
