Jona is a former municipality and since January 2007 part of the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Rapperswil-Jona Rapperswil-Jona is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Besides Rapperswil and Jona, which were separate municipalities until 2006, Rapperswil-Jona also includes Bollinge ...

in the ''Wahlkreis'' (

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) of See-Gaster in the

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of St. Gallen in

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. Before the merger with

Rapperswil Rapperswil (Swiss German: or ;Andres Kristol, ''Rapperswil SG (See)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS, LSG)'', Centre de dial ...

, the former municipality of Jona comprised the villages of Jona,

Bollingen Bollingen is a village () within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. Geography The village is located along the northern shore of the upper Lake Zürich (''Obersee'') between Jona and Schmerikon. Bollingen ...

Busskirch Busskirch is a village (''Kirchdorf'') within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Geography The village is located along the northern shore of the Obersee (Zürichsee), ''Obersee'' lakeshore betwee ...

, Curtiberg,

Kempraten Kempraten-Lenggis is a village (''Kirchdorf'') within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona, ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The remains of the Gallo-Roman settlement ''Centum Prata'' are on ...

-Lenggis, and Wagen.

Geography

The former municipality of Jona extended from the eastern shore of the main part of

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(

) to the northern shore of ''Obersee'', the upper or eastern division of Lake Zurich (

). The former village of Jona is located on the River Jona, which flows into the ''Obersee''.

History

The River Jona flows through the former Jona municipality in the ''Obersee'' (upper Lake Zürich). The settlement is named after the river, first recorded in Latinized form ''Johanna'' in AD 834, as ''super Johannam fluvium''. The Middle High German form ''Jonun'' is recorded 1243. The river name was likely adapted into Alemannic (Old High German) around the 8th century from a Gallo-Roman ''*Jauna'' as a weakly inflecting feminine ''*Jōna(n)'', yielding modern

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''Jōne(n)''. In 1350, Rapperswil and its

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was widely destroyed by

Rudolf Brun Rudolf Brun (1290s – 17 September 1360) was the leader of the Zürich guilds' revolution of 1336, and the city's first independent mayor. Biography Since 1234, Zürich had been governed by an aristocratic council. One third of the council's ...

, and the ''Herrschaft Rapperswil'' – Rapperswil and some surrounding villages including Jona – was acquired by the

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family. After 1803's

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, Rapperswil and Jona joined the

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, and the former ''Herrschaft Rapperswil'' was split into the municipalities

and Jona. Jona, as municipality, was established in 1803 ''around the former boundaries of the city of Rapperswil'', comprising the small rest of the former Herrschaft Rapperswil and the villages of Bollingen, Busskirch, Curtiberg, Kempraten-Lenggis, Wagen and Wurmsbach. In the early 19th century, Jona river's

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was used for a larger number of

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s along the small river. As a renewable source, the river was important for

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of the rapidly growing village. On January 1, 2007, the municipalities of

and Jona merged to form a new political entity:

has a population of 25,777 (as of December 2007). This makes it the second largest town in the

after the capital St. Gallen itself.

Transport

The town's bus service, ''Stadtbus Rapperswil-Jona'', is provided by the

Verkehrsbetriebe Zürichsee und Oberland Verkehrsbetriebe Zürichsee und Oberland (VZO) is a public transport operator in the region between Lake Zürich and the Zürcher Oberland to the south-east of the city of Zürich in the canton of Zürich. It operates bus services between the vari ...

(VZO) since 2008. In addition, ' operates line 622 to Wagen (continues to St. Gallenkappel/

Wattwil Wattwil is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Toggenburg (Wahlkreis), Toggenburg in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of St. Gallen (canton), St. Gallen in Switzerland, located along the Thur (Rhi ...

) and line 621 to Buech/St. Dyonis. The main

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

of the former Jona municipality is , which is served by

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trains of the

Zürich S-Bahn The Zurich S-Bahn () system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, ...

(lines S5 and S15, combined quarter-hourly service between and ). Jona railway station and adjacent bus station were renovated between 2013 and 2015. Two other railway stations in the former Jona municipality, and , are served by the S6 of St. Gallen S-Bahn (hourly service to /) and S7 of Zürich S-Bahn (half-hourly service to , and ), respectively. Another railway station, , is disused since 2004. The largest railway station of the

municipality is .

Notable people

Alberich Zwyssig Father Alberich or Alberik Zwyssig (17 November 1808 – 18 November 1854) was a Cistercian monk who composed in 1841 the Swiss Psalm, the present Swiss national anthem. Life Johann Josef Maria Zwyssig (he took the name "Alberich" later as his n ...

(1808-1854) a Cistercian monk who composed the

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, the present Swiss national anthem. *

Carl Gustav Jung Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. A prolific author of over 20 books, illustrator, and correspondent, Jung was a ...

(1875-1961) a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. * Wangpo Tethong (born 1963), Swiss-Tibetan activist, writer, spokesperson of

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and member of the 15th

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. *

Roger Federer Roger Federer ( , ; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 3 ...

(born 1981), Swiss former professional tennis player, is moving to

(former Jona municipality).

Gallery and maps

File:Jona-Wagen - Austrasse 2015-11-07 13-53-30.JPG, Wagen village File:Jona (SG) - Stadthaus - Ansicht von katholischer Kirche IMG 7137.JPG, ''Stadthaus'' (city hall) File:Jona (SG) - Molkereistrasse IMG 1806 ShiftN.jpg, Molkereistrasse with shops File:Jona - Jona (SG) IMG 8842 ShiftN.jpg, River Jona and ''Mariae Himmelfahrt'' church File:EW Jona-Rapperswil 2011-04-08 15-02-52 ShiftN.jpg, ''Elektrizitätswerk Jona-Rapperswil'', ''EWJR'' (electric power station) File:Jona IMG 2408.JPG, Former

Jona railway station Jona railway station is a railway station in Switzerland, situated next to the village of Jona ( canton of St. Gallen). It is one of four active railway stations in the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona (the other three being , and ). The statio ...

on the

S-Bahn Zürich The Zurich S-Bahn () system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Canton of Aargau, Aargau, Canton of Gla ...

lines S5 and S15 File:Jona IMG 2419.JPG, Grünfels estate next to

File:Meienberg (Rapperswil-Jona) IMG 9051.JPG, Meienberg Castle File:Jona (SG) - Strandbad Stampf IMG 1926.JPG, ''Stampf'' lido next to the River Jona

delta Delta commonly refers to: * Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet * D (NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta"), the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet * River delta, at a river mouth * Delta Air Lines, a major US carrier ...

and ''Obersee'' (upper Lake Zürich), respectively File:Jona - Jona (SG) Stampf 2011-03-20 16-49-38.jpg, Delta of River Jona (''Stampf'') File:Jona (SG) - Busskirch St Martin IMG 8894 ShiftN.jpg, St. Martin

File:Buech Dionys (Jona) - St. Dionys 2011-03-20 15-28-22.JPG, Buech, St. Dionys church

References

Literature

* Eugen Halter: ''Geschichte der Gemeinde Jona''. Politische Gemeinde Jona, Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zürich 1970.

External links

Rapperswil-Jona
(official site) * * * * {{Authority control Former municipalities of the canton of St. Gallen Rapperswil-Jona Populated places on Lake Zurich