Helgoland

Helgoland or Heligoland, (as readers of English more usually know it), formerly known as Heyleigeland or ‘Holy Land’, is an island situated in the North Sea off the coast of Germany with a smaller uninhabited island (Sand Island) to the east. They were a British possession from 1807 until 1890. Today, it is again German territory and has around 1200 inhabitants, who speak a dialect of the North Frisian language. Interestingly, the controversial Oera Linda Book was allegedly written on the nearby Frisian Islands in the Frisian language. Decades later, Walter Baucum also adopted Heligoland as the location of the Atlantean capital.

>Jürgen Spanuth‘suddenly’ alerted the English-speaking world of Atlantology to the possible significance of Helgoland in the 1970s when he published Atlantis of the North ^[0015] which claimed it as the location of Plato’s Atlantis. However, Spanuth omitted to mention that in the 1930s, Heinrich Pudor had already nominated Helgoland as Plato’s Island! ^[1693][1694], but was unreferenced by Spanuth. Rudolf Czeppan also endorsed Spanuth’s theory.<

Helgoland today is only a fraction of its size twelve hundred years ago^(a). There is a tradition that it was once joined to the German mainland. It was also an important source of copper in Northern Europe. (In the map above, Helgoland is the two small islands in the shaded area). Furthermore, it has also been described as formerly the highest point in Doggerland.

Helgoland is also home to something found nowhere else on the planet, namely, red silex or flint, apparently highly prized during the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages^(c).

In 2012, M.A. Joramo published Atlantis Unveiled ^[1076] in which he also placed Atlantis on Helgoland in a theory heavily influenced by Jürgen Spanuth and Felice Vinci.

‘Archbishop’ Uwe Rosenkranz has claimed in a 2022 paper that Atlantis had been situated in Helgoland – “Egypt inscriptions from newer archeological excavations seem to prove the theory that ATLANTIS was a modern high technology nation in western Europe with center at the shores of the Northern sea- today´s Helgoland.”^(d)

^(a) https://ecowar.blogspot.com/2011/09/as-on-helgoland-so-in-cambodia.html

^(b) Mysteria3000 » Archiv » Die Kontroverse um das Helgoländer Kupfer (archive.org)  (German)

^(c) https://www.q-mag.org/blood-red-flint-tools-souvenirs-of-doggerland.html

^(d) (99+) Atlantis in Kanaan und Israel | Uwe Rosenkranz – Academia.edu