Jonah SG

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Jonah
Coat of arms of Jonah
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency : Sea gaster
Political community : Rapperswil-Jonai2
Postal code : 8645
UN / LOCODE : CH JON
Coordinates : 705 643  /  230463 coordinates: 47 ° 13 '0 "  N , 8 ° 50' 0"  O ; CH1903:  705 643  /  230463
Height : 420  m above sea level M.
Area : 20.43  km²
Residents: 17,799 (December 30, 2006)i
Population density : 871 inhabitants per km²
Jona, view from Etzel, in the foreground the Obersee

Jona, view from Etzel, in the foreground the Obersee
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2007
The Jona in the city center, in the background the church of Mariae Himmelfahrt and St. Valentin

Jona is a place in the political municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the lake district in the southwest of the Swiss canton of St. Gallen .

geography

The local area of ​​Jona covers an area of ​​20.93 km², a small part of which is on Lake Zurich. The population orientates itself socially, economically and culturally towards Zurich, because the canton capital St. Gallen is separated by the Rickenpass and is more difficult to reach than Zurich.

history

Historic aerial photo of Walter Mittelholzer from 1919

Early history

The area of ​​Jonah was already settled by the Celts and later by the Romans. Numerous archaeological finds are evidence of this. The vicus Kempraten is the largest known Roman settlement in today's canton of St. Gallen. The Alemannic settlement emerged in the 7th century in the form of a scattered settlement, which gradually grouped into six hamlets (Jona, Busskirch, Kempraten, Wurmsbach, Bollingen and Wagen). The place name is derived from the river name , Latinized in the 9th century as Johanna , in the 13th century as Jonun .

middle Ages

Around 1200, the lords of Rapperswil had manorial power and jurisdiction, while the settlement belonged to different parishes, divided between the Pfäfers monastery, the Einsiedeln monastery and the Rüti Premonstratensian monastery. The hamlet of Wurmsbach had a parish church of St. Dionys , which lost its importance after the founding of the Cistercian convent Wurmsbach (1259) and was finally incorporated into the parish of Busskirch (1369). A parish of Jona was founded by the Lords of Rapperswil in the 13th century, which was integrated into the administration of the Rapperswil parish in the 14th century. In the 15th century there were sister houses in Widen, Grüenwald, Ferrenwald and Balberin.

In the 14th century the rule fell to the Habsburgs, and in 1415 again to the city of Rapperswil. In 1531 the inhabitants declared themselves reformed in an iconoclasm; but the Reformation was reversed after two months by the central Swiss patrons of Rapperswil.

Helvetic and Swiss Confederation

Busskirch on the general plan, around 1649
The village center at today's St. Gallerstrasse, around 1833

When the Helvetic Republic was founded , the impoverished courtiers wanted to form a community with Rapperswil, but Rapperswil refused and so Jona became a separate community in the canton of Linth , since 1803 in the lake district in the canton of St. Gallen. In the 19th century the first craftsmen settled next to the farms and the young community grew in the shadow of Rapperswil.

The former community of Jona included the localities of Bollingen and Wagen as well as the areas of Kempraten , Busskirch and Wurmsbach . The area of Jona encircled the town of Rapperswil and pushes both sides of Seedamms at the Lake Zurich and on the upper lake .

The Joner coat of arms showed Maria , the Jona river and the roses from Rapperswil. The coat of arms dates from the 19th century and was no longer used after the merger with Rapperswil.

Since the Second World War

Jonah experienced a boom after World War II . During this time, numerous housing cooperatives were founded to provide inexpensive apartments for the middle and lower classes. The sanitary appliance company Geberit has been based in Jona since 1962 . Connected to the Zurich S-Bahn since 1990 with the S 5 , the S 15 connection introduced in 2006 triggered a further phase of growth. When it merged with Rapperswil, the population of Jonas (18,000) was more than twice as large as that of Rapperswil.

Merger with Rapperswil

Jona and Rapperswil already had a common infrastructure before the merger. Its border was fluid, it can hardly be made out from the air. After unsuccessful attempts in 1999, the population of Rapperswil and Jona agreed on November 30, 2003, in a fundamental vote, to the initiatives submitted in both communities to unite the two communities , Jona with a yes share of 52% and Rapperswil with a yes share of 82%. With the vote on the Unification Treaty on May 1, 2005, majorities in both municipalities were achieved in favor of the merger; Jona with 61.1% yes-shares (voting participation 64.7%) and Rapperswil with 89.2% yes-shares (voting participation 60.4%). On January 1, 2007, Rapperswil merged with the former political municipality of Jona to form the new municipality of Rapperswil-Jona.

Before the merger there was a community council in Jona. This consisted of 7 members and a community clerk. The last replacement elections took place in September 2004. The citizens voted on political matters in the citizens' assembly.

Demographics

Before the merger in 2007, around 18,000 people officially lived in the community of Jona. At the end of 2009, 26,034 people lived in Rapperswil-Jona .

The official language of the former municipality is written German ; In everyday life, mainly Swiss German is spoken in the Zurich dialect.

Infrastructure

The very open attitude towards building applications resulted in different architectural styles in Jona. An actual old community core did not remain and had to give way to a shopping center. Occasionally old farm buildings have remained standing (Neuhof, Restaurant Johanna) which show the past times.

Churches

Church of St. Martin in Busskirch

In Jona there is the catholic parish Jona with the churches Maria Himmelfahrt , St. Wendelin in Wagen and the parish St. Pankraz in Bollingen. The Catholic parish church of St. Franziskus in Kempraten was looked after by the parish of Rapperswil before the parishes merged . The medieval chapel of St. Dionys is located near the industrial area of ​​Buech . The St. Martinskirche Busskirch is popular for weddings and christenings because of its location directly on the lake. The Protestant parish is active across both parts of the city and has one church each in Rapperswil and Jona.

Recreational areas

Jona has recreational areas and green areas. The meadow next to the Joner train station is an inheritance from Lotte Stiefel.

In the north is the Jonerwald with Vitaparcours . In the south is the protected shore of Lake Zurich. In 2006 the Nature Conservation Commission wanted to bring nature closer to the population. To this end, she developed the new adventure trail “Schauplatz Natur”. At various stations she shows the natural places in Jona and the surrounding area.

traffic

The city of Jona has connections to the A53 transit route (Zürcher Oberlandautobahn), which can be used to reach the A3 in the Lint plain .

Jona S-Bahn station before the renovation

Jona has a S-Bahn station with a bus station, the Blumenau stop and the Kempraten station in the center. The Bollingen stop is no longer in operation. As a measure because of the planned but not implemented tunnel construction through Rapperswil, Jona has invested in public transport in recent years. The new Jona bus station was completed in 2015.

Culture

The focus is on Villa Grünstels , which Lotte Stiefel bequeathed to the community of Jona in 1986. It houses the youth music school and the Grünstels basement stage. The two coach houses are to the north of the villa . The cultural center for contemporary culture (ZAK) is housed in a coach house and can also be rented for private purposes. The Kreuz Kulturzentrum is located south of the train station.

Personalities

literature

  • Andrea Frei: Jonah during the Helvetic (1798–1803). 200 years of independent Jona congregation - the first years. Jona congregation, Jona 1998.
  • Beat Frei: Jonah. The history. Jona congregation, Jona 2004.
  • Pascale Sutter (adaptation): Legal sources of the city and rule of Rapperswil (with the farms Busskirch / Jona, Kempraten and Wagen) . In: Collection of Swiss legal sources , XIV. Department: The legal sources of the Canton of St. Gallen, Part two: The city rights of St. Gallen and Rapperswil, Second series: The legal sources of the city and rule of Rapperswil, Schwabe, Basel 2007. ISBN 978-3 -7965-2297-0 online

Web links

Commons : Jona SG  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rapperswil-Jona.ch History: Celts and Romans , accessed on November 1, 2014
  2. ^ Rapperswil-Jona.ch Coat of arms: The coat of arms of the united city of Rapperswil-Jona , accessed on November 1, 2014
  3. ^ Rapperswil-Jona.ch Statistics: Rapperswil-Jona in figures , accessed on November 1, 2014
  4. ↑ Rapperswil-Jona is on the other side of the Ricken and therefore closer to Zurich.
  5. ↑ Rapperswil-Jona.ch “SCHAUPLATZ NATUR” , accessed on November 2, 2014
  6. ↑ Schauplatz Natur ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the St. Gallen University of Education, accessed on November 2, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phsg.ch
  7. ↑ Rapperswil-Jona.ch cultural sites: Kellerbühne Grünstels , accessed on November 1, 2014
  8. ↑ Rapperswil-Jona.ch Overview: Space and Spaces for Culture , accessed on November 1, 2014
  9. ↑ Rapperswil-Jona.ch News: New KREUZ opening , accessed on November 1, 2014
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