Bollingen (German pronunciation: [ˈbɔlɪŋən]) 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. Bollingen was part of the former municipality of Jona: On 1 January 2007 the former municipalities of Rapperswil and Jona merged to form the new political entity Rapperswil-Jona.
History
Sandstone from Bollingen may have been used even in the Roman Empire era, but presumably
Bollinger Sandstein is extracted and processed since 1000 AD. Among others it was used for the
Grossmünster 
and
Fraumünster 
churches in Zürich, as well as for the Einsiedeln and St. Gallen abbeys, or the Zunfthaus zur Meisen that was built in 1757 at the Münsterhof plaza in Zürich.