Rapperswil-Jona
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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 Bollingen, Busskirch, Curtiberg, Kempraten-Lenggis, and Wagen.
Rapperswil-Jona as seen from Kempraten-Lenggis, Jona to the left, Rapperswil and Seedamm to the right, Obersee (upper Lake Zürich) and Lachen (SZ) in the background (March 2010)
Rapperswil from the air
Rapperswil Hauptplatz (main square)
Seedamm isthmus (ice age moraine) with causeway and bridge, with both railway track and road. The wooden pedestrian bridge is shown in the background.
Obersee (Zürichsee)
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The Obersee is the smaller of the two parts of Zürichsee in the cantons of St. Gallen and Schwyz in Switzerland.
Zürichsee and Obersee divided by the Seedamm area between Rapperswil and Hurden, Frauenwinkel wetland in the foreground.
Lindenhof in Rapperswil as seen from Kempraten on an 1899 photochrome, Kempratnerbucht in the foreground.
Obersee towards Buechberg
the lake area at Schmerikon