Werner Wickboldt

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Werner Wickboldt (born 1943 in Kiel) is a German teacher at a vocational school in Brunswick, and the original author of a hypothesis about a location of Plato's Atlantis City.

[edit] Atlantean hypothesis

Wickboldt claimed that Atlantis was located at Doñana Park, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain at precisely (36°57'25"N / 6°22'58"E).

He is convinced that the events which are connected with Atlantis took place around 1200 B.C. and that the Atlanteans are identical to the sea peoples. He started his attempt to find the location of Atlantis in 1992 and proceeded independently of the well-known Atlantis theories, using only the text of Plato and the interpretation of ´nesos´ as a coastline, an island inside of a river or a river delta. Working with satellite images Wickboldt identified a part of a system of rings which he thought fitted to those that Plato described. [1].

The first public presentation of these results took place in the summer 1997 in Utersum/Föhr in Nordfriesland.

In January 2003[2], Wickboldt held a lecture about the Sea Peoples, describing his hypothesis on the possible existence of supposed rectangular and circular ruins. He believed that those ruins, in Doñana Park, Spain, were the legendary Atlantis, through analysis of photographies obtained by a Hindu Satellite. Wickboldt claimed these possible ruins could correspond to the temples of Poseidon and Cleito of the Acropolis of Atlantis. Satellite images of the area show two rectangular structures and concentric circles which have been hypothesized to be the "temple of Poseidon" and "the temple of Cleito and Poseidon".[3] It is not known if any of these shapes are natural or manmade and archaeological excavations are planned.[4]

Wickboldt suggested that the Atlanteans were the Sea Peoples who attacked the Eastern Mediterranean countries around 1200 BC, or proto-Tartessian peoples of the Bronze Age (1800-1300 BC).[5] The Andalusian hypothesis was originally developed by the Spanish authors José Pellicer de Ossau i Tovar[6] in 1673 and Juan Fernández Amador y de los Ríos[7] in 1919, and afterwards by the German author Adolf Schulten in 1922, and further studied by Otto Jessen and Richard Hennig in the 1920s. Wickboldt claims to be the first to identify an exact location.

Geologists have shown that the Doñana National Park experienced intense erosion from 4000 BC until century IX AD, where it became a marine environment. For thousands of years until the Medieval Age, all that area now occupies the Marshes Doñana was a gulf or a sea-arm inland, and there nor even a small island with sufficient space to house a small village.[8][9]

[edit] References and notes

  1. ^ Conference Milos 2005: Proceedings of the International Conference on "The Atlantis Hypothesis: Searching for a Lost Land", Athen 2007, ISBN 978-960-89882-1-7
  2. ^ Forscher meldet:"Atlantis lag in Südwest-Spanien" Wolfenbüttel: Vortrag im Landesmuseum nahm eine überraschende Wendung https://www.newsclick.de/index.jsp/menuid/2044/artid/1281883
  3. ^ Paul Rincon. "Satellite images 'show Atlantis", BBC News, June 06, 2004. Retrieved on 2006-08-10. 
  4. ^ http://www.beepworld.de/members/archiv_rainer_kuehne_17/ Search for Tartessos-Atlantis in the Donana National Park
  5. ^ (Spanish) La Atlantida de Platon - Teorias cientificas by Georgeos Díaz-Montexano
  6. ^ Joseph Pellicer de Ossau y Tovar (Spaniard). Aparato a la mvonarchia antigua de las Españas en los tres tiempos del mundo, el adelon, el mithico y el historico : primera parte... / por don Ioseph Pellicer de Ossau y Touar... (En Valençia : por Benito Macè..., 1673 (the first extense studie about Atlantis in Iberia, with the hypothesis about Doñana)
  7. ^ Juan Fernández Amador de los Ríos (Spaniard). Antigüedades ibéricas / por Juan Fernández Amador de los Rios. Pamplona : Nemesio Aramburu, 1911. (first part about the Atlantis in Iberia, with the hypothesis about Doñana, Sea Peoples, etc.)
  8. ^ A. Rodriguez-Ramirez et al., Recent coastal evolution of the Doñana National Park (SW Spain), in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 15 (1996) pp.803 -809
  9. ^ Paleogeografía de las costas atlánticas de Andalucía durante el Holoceno medio-superior : prehistoria reciente, protohistoria y fases históricas / Francisco Borja Barrera En: Tartessos : 25 años después, 1968-1993 : Jerez de la Frontera, 1995, ISBN 84-87194-64-8, pags. 73-97

[edit] External links

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