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

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

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, the municipality includes Bollingen, Bussk ...

in the ''Wahlkreis'' (

constituency An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger State (polity), state (a country, administrative region, ...

) of

See-Gaster See-Gaster is a constituency (''Wahlkreis'') in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Wahlkreis ( SFOS number 1726) has been established on June 10, 2001, with an area of . It was formed from the former ''See'' and ''Gaster'' districts in ...

in the canton of

St. Gallen , neighboring_municipalities = Eggersriet, Gaiserwald, Gossau, Herisau (AR), Mörschwil, Speicher (AR), Stein (AR), Teufen (AR), Untereggen, Wittenbach , twintowns = Liberec (Czech Republic) , website ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. 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 dia ...

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

Bollingen Bollingen is a village (''Kirchdorf'') 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. ...

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'' lakeshore between Jona and Bollingen. ...

, 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 one ...

-Lenggis, Wagen and Wurmsbach (

Wurmsbach Abbey Wurmsbach Abbey (Kloster Mariazell-Wurmsbach) is a monastery of Cistercian nuns located in Bollingen, a locality of Rapperswil-Jona, in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is located on the north shore of upper Lake Zürich. The house is a ...

Geography

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

Lake Zürich __NOTOC__ Lake Zurich ( Swiss German/Alemannic: ''Zürisee''; German: ''Zürichsee''; rm, Lai da Turitg) is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zürich. Depending on the context, Lake Zurich or ''Zürichsee'' can be used to ...

(

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

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

History

The River

Jona Jona may refer to: * Jona, Switzerland, a village of the municipality Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland * Jona (river), in the cantons of Zürich and St. Gallen in Switzerland * Jona (album), ''Jona'' (album), an album by Jona Viray People with the giv ...

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

dialectal The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena: One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a ...

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

castle A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...

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. Since 1234, Zürich had been governed by an aristocratic council. One third of the council's members w ...

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

Habsburg The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...

family. After 1803's

Act of Mediation The Act of Mediation () was issued by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic on 19 February 1803 establishing the Swiss Confederation. The act also abolished the previous Helvetic Republic, which had existed since the invasion ...

, Rapperswil and Jona joined the

canton of St. Gallen The canton of St. Gallen, also canton of St Gall (german: link=no, Kanton St. Gallen ; rm, Chantun Son Gagl; french: Canton de Saint-Gall; it, Canton San Gallo), is a canton of Switzerland. The capital is St. Gallen. Located in northeastern ...

, 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

hydropower Hydropower (from el, ὕδωρ, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to Electricity generation, produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by energy transformation, converting the Pot ...

was used for a larger number of

watermill A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production of ...

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

industrialization Industrialisation ( alternatively spelled industrialization) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. This involves an extensive re-organisation of an econo ...

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 canton after the capital

itself.

Transportation

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 va ...

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

Wattwil Wattwil is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the municipality of Krinau merged into Wattwil.railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

of the former Jona municipality is , which is served by

S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban- suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble co ...

trains of the

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

(lines S5 and S15, combined quarter-hourly service between and ). Jona railway station and adjacent bus station were renewed 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 near

is disfunct 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

Swiss Psalm The "Swiss Psalm" (german: Schweizerpsalm, italic=no / "Trittst im Morgenrot daher..."; french: Cantique suisse, italic=no, ; it, Salmo svizzero, italic=no, ; rm, Psalm Svizzer, italic=no, ) is the national anthem of Switzerland. It was comp ...

, the present Swiss national anthem. *

Carl Gustav Jung Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philo ...

(1875-1961) a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. *

Wangpo Tethong Wangpo Tethong (born 16 April 1963, Trogen, Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden) is the owner and managing director of Tethong Kommunikation. He is a former party secretary of the Green Party Canton of Zurich, spokesperson of Greenpeace Switzerland ...

(born 1963), Swiss-Tibetan activist, writer, spokesperson of

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and member of the 15th

Tibetan Parliament in Exile The Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE), officially the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, is the unicameral and highest legislative organ of the Central Tibetan Administration, the government-in-exile of the Tibet Autonomous Reg ...

. *

Roger Federer Roger Federer (; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at No. 1, world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, in ...

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

(former Jona municipality).https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/get-off-my-land_federer-gets-caught-up-in-lake-access-debate/45163420

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 station i ...

on the

S-Bahn Zürich The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban- suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble co ...

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), a letter of the Greek alphabet * River delta, at a river mouth * D (NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta") * Delta Air Lines, US * Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 Delta may also re ...

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