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Jona
Jona
	Jona as seen from the S-Bahn Zürich train station
Canton	St. Gallen
District	See-Gaster
Municipality	Rapperswil-Jona
	47°13′N 8°49′E / 47.217°N 8.817°ECoordinates: 47°13′N 8°49′E / 47.217°N 8.817°E
Population	17,799 (December 2006)
- Density	871 /km2 (2,256 /sq mi)
Area	20.43 km2 (7.89 sq mi)
Elevation	409 m (1,342 ft)
Postal code	8645
SFOS number	3335
Localities	Bollingen
Surrounded by; (view map)	Altendorf (SZ), Bubikon (ZH), Eschenbach, Freienbach (SZ), Hombrechtikon (ZH), Kempraten, Lachen (SZ), Rapperswil, Rüti (ZH), Schmerikon, Tuggen (SZ), Wangen (SZ)
Website	www.rapperswil-jona.ch; SFSO statistics
; Jona [zoom]

For other uses, see Jona (disambiguation).

Grünfels estate

Stampf lido on Jona river respectively on Obersee (upper Lake Zürich)

St. Martin Busskirch

Jona is a village in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, located at the east side of the Lake Zurich. Jona is part of the municipality Rapperswil-Jona.

[edit] History

Jona and Rapperswil (1804)

Jona river near Holzwies street

Jona train station on the S-Bahn Zürich lines S5 and S15

The river Jona flows through the municipality in the Lake Zürich. The river's name was first mentioned in 834 AD, the municipalty Jona was named much later. It is assumed that the name originates as either Celtic Jauna (the cold one) – Jona river is still largely determined by forest area – or, as Indo-Eurepean yamam, meaning stream. Latest interpretations say that the Indo-European word jeu roughly means to move, followed by the Old High German name Jouna .^[1]

In 1350, Rapperswil was widely destroyed by Rudolf Brun, and the Herrschaft Rapperswil – Rapperswil and some surrounding villages including Jona – was acquired by the Habsburg family. After 1803's Act of Mediation, Rapperswil and Jona joined the canton of St. Gallen, and the former Herrschaft Rapperswil was splitten into the municipalites Rapperswil and Jona. In the early 19th century, Jona rivers hydropower was used for a larger number of watermills along the small river. As a renewable source, the river was important for industrialization of the rapidly growing village, since 1803 including the sourrounding villages Bollingen, Busskirch, Curtiberg, Kempraten-Lenggis, Wagen and Wurmsbach.

On January 1, 2007, the municipalities of Rapperswil and Jona merged to form a new political entity: Rapperswil-Jona has a population of 25,777 (December 2007). This makes it the second largest town in the canton after the capital St. Gallen itself.

[edit] Transport

Jona is a stop of the Zürich S-Bahn on the lines S5 and S15. Its train station is a 33 minute (S5) ride from Zürich Hauptbahnhof.

[edit] Personalities

Jakob Braendlin-Näf (1775-1845)
Johann Jakob Staub (1783-1852)
Alberich Zwyssig (1808-1854)
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

[edit] See also

Rapperswil-Jona

[edit] Notes

^ Website detten.ch: Jona river (German) and Gallery

[edit] Literature

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

[edit] External links

Media related to Jona at Wikimedia Commons
Rapperswil-Jona (official site) (German)
Bollingen in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
Busskirch in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
Jona in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
Kempraten in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

[0] Website detten.ch: Jona river (German) and Gallery

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