Editing Mannheim (section)

===Early history===
A brick kiln excavated in 1929 in the Seckenheim district, which operated from 74 AD to the early second century, attests to settlement in Roman times.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Emmi.|first=Brandi, Ulrike, 1957– Federhofer|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/610821190|title=Ton + Technik : römische Ziegel|date=2010|publisher=Limesmuseum Aalen, Zweigmuseum des Archäologischen Landesmuseums Baden-Württemberg|isbn=978-3-8062-2403-0|oclc=610821190}}</ref>

The name of the city was first recorded as ''Mannenheim'' in a legal transaction in 766, surviving in a twelfth-century copy in the ''[[Lorsch codex|Codex Laureshamensis]]'' from [[Lorsch Abbey]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Minst, Karl Josef [Transl.]: Lorscher Codex: deutsch; Urkundenbuch der ehemaligen Fürstabtei Lorsch (Band 2): Schenkungsurkunden Nr. 167 – 818, Oberrheingau und Ladengau (Lorsch, 1968)|url=https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/minst1968bd2/0199|access-date=2021-12-18|website=digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de}}</ref> The name is interpreted as "the home of Manno", a short form of a [[Germanic name]] such as ''Hartmann'' or ''Hermann''.<ref>Sonja Steiner-Welz, ''400 Jahre Stadt Mannheim (Dokumente zur Stadtgeschichte). Band 1: bis zur Kaiserzeit'', vol. 1, 2004, {{ISBN|978-3-936041-96-5}}, p. 41.</ref> Mannheim remained a mere village throughout the Middle Ages.