Wannenburgh
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Wannenburgh is an old[1] and relatively rare South German toponymic surname[2] meaning "tub[3][-shaped] castle", or "tub[-shaped] mountain" in the case of Wannenberg(h).[4][5][6] The "Wan[n]enburg" spelling appears later (circa 1471) than the earlier "Wahne[n]bergen" and "Wanenberg[h]" spellings in Germanic records. Among variant forms are Wannenberg(h), Wanenbergh, Wanenberc(h), Wanenberg(e), and Wa(h)ne(n)berg(en [medieval plural form]).[7][8][9]
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In medieval literature, the "gh" digraph is usually replaced with a "ch". Renaissance-era Dutch Republic archives have it written as Wannenbúrg(h).[10] The Schleswig-Holsteinische Regesten und Urkunden refers to the first instance of someone bearing this family name as early as 1162—namely the ministerialis and advocatus ('Vogt zu Verden'), Conrad I von Wanebergen, of Verden an der Aller in Lower Saxony.[11][12][13] Conrad I, whose ancestors likely also lived near the Weser, was a vassal of Henry the Lion by 1162.[14][15][16][17] The oldest variant form, Wa(h)nebergen, is notably found in the Verdener Urkundenbuches or Urkundenbuch der Bischöfe und des Domkapitels von Verden and Wilhelm Freiherr von Hodenberg's Lüneburger Urkundenbuch: Archiv des Klosters St. Johannis zu Walsrode.