Bollingen is a village (Kirchdorf) within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen The Canton of St. Gallen (German: Kanton St. Gallen ) is a canton of Switzerland. St. Gallen is located in the north east of Switzerland. It covers an area of 2,026 km², and has a population (as of 31 December 2008) of 471,152. As of 2007[update], the population included 97,461 foreigners, or about 20.9% of the total population. The capital is St, Switzerland Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation (Confœderatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe[note 4] where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to.

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Geography

The village is located along the northern shore of the upper Lake Zurich (Obersee) between Jona Jona is a former municipality in the Wahlkreis of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland and Schmerikon. Bollingen was part of the former municipality of Jona: On January 1, 2007, the former municipalities of Rapperswil and Jona merged to form the new political entity Rapperswil-Jona.

History

Sandstone Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains. Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any color, but the most common colors are tan, brown, yellow, red, gray and white. Since sandstone beds often form from Bollingen[1] already was used by the Roman Empire, and for example, to (partially) build the Cathedral in Lausanne Lausanne (French pronunciation: [loˈzan] is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Leman . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west. Lausanne is located 62, Grossmünster The Grossmünster is a Romanesque-style church that played an important role in the history of the Protestant Reformation. It is one of the three major churches of Zürich (the others being the Fraumünster and St. Peterskirche). The core of the present building near the banks of the Limmat River was constructed on the site of a Carolingian church, in Zürich and the city hall in Winterthur Winterthur is a city in the canton of Zurich in northern Switzerland. It has the country's sixth largest population with an estimate of more than 100,000 people. In the local dialect and by its inhabitants, it is usually abbreviated to Winti. Today Winterthur is a service and high tech industry centre, but many people make use of its proximity to. In the Middle Ages The Middle Ages is a period of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The period followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, and preceded the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period in a three-period division of history: Classical, Medieval, and Modern. The term "Middle Ages" (medium aevum) was coined in, the two settlements named Unterbollingen and Oberbollingen are mentioned as part of the latter Grafschaft of the Counts of Rapperswil. In the early 13th century a small church is mentioned in Unterbollingen whose rights were transferred in 1229 by Rudolf (II) of Rapperswil and Diethelm of Toggenburg to the Premonstratensian Abbey St. Mary in Rüti (ZH). On the headland/peninsula at Oberbollingen, a St. Nicholas Chapel is mentioned, where around 1229 a small Cistercian The Order of Cistercians is a Catholic religious order of enclosed monks and nuns. They are sometimes also called the White Monks, in reference to the colour of the habit, over which a black scapular or apron is sometimes worn. The emphasis of Cistercian life is on manual labour and self-sufficiency, and many abbeys have traditionally supported (later Premonstratensian) monastery was established by the Counts of Rapperswil; in 1267 it was united with the nearby Mariazell Wurmsbach Abbey. In 1519, a new church in honor of St. Pancras was inaugurated in Unterbollingen. After the Reformation in Switzerland The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrate and population of Zürich in the 1520s. It led to significant changes in civil life and state matters in Zürich and spread to several other cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy. Seven cantons remained Roman Catholic,, it was acquired by the city of Rapperswil to be united with the Heiliggeistspital (Holy Spirit Hospital); since 1871, it is a parish church A parish church, in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches for its own.

Points of interest

Bollingen is known for the "Tower" built there by Carl Gustav Jung Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology. Jung is often considered the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth. Though not the first to analyze dreams, he has become perhaps the most well known pioneer in, anonther remarkable site is the Wurmsbach Abbey.

Transport

There was a train station about halfway between the Wurmsbach Abbey and the village, closed in 2004 for economical reasons and replaced by a bus connection to Jona Jona is a former municipality in the Wahlkreis of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ de:Bollinger Sandstein
  2. ^ Bollingen Dorf – Wurmsbach – Jona Bahnhof on rapperswil.ch

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