Bollingen
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Bollingen is a small village near Rapperswil, in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is located on the north bank of Lake Zurich and is part of the municipality of Jona.
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[edit] Description
Bollingen lies about 5000 meters along the north bank of lake Zurich between Jona and Schmerikon. There is a railway halt about halfway between the abbey and the village, and a landing for the ferry from Zurich, but apart from local restaurants there are no commercial establishments.
[edit] Abbey
Wurmsbach Abbey, a nunnery of the Cistercians founded in 1261, is located in the village. The nuns now run a secondary school for girls.
[edit] Carl Jung
Bollingen is well known as the location of the country retreat (in appearance a small castle with several towers) which C.G. Jung constructed within the village on the shore of the lake. For much of his life Jung spent several months a year living at Bollingen, and here he accomplished much of his writing, painting, and sculpture. Jung's residence is now owned by a family trust, and is not available for public visits.
[edit] Bollingen Foundation
Paul Mellon and his wife Mary Conover Mellon provided funding for a foundation named, after Jung's residence, the Bollingen Foundation. Initially the foundation was dedicated to the dissemination of Jung's work, and eventually published more than 250 related volumes. In 1949, the foundation donated $10,000 to the Library of Congress to be used toward a prize for the best poetry each year. The Library of Congress fellows, who that year included T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, and Conrad Aiken, controversially gave the prize to Ezra Pound for his 1948 Pisan Cantos. After an attack, led by the Saturday Review of Literature, concerning Pound's Fascist and anti-semitic politics, Congress discontinued the prize. In 1950, the prize was continued under the auspices of Yale University, and its first winner was Wallace Stevens. The prize continues to this day. Since 1969 the foundation has been inactive; publication of the Bollingen Series has been continued by the Princeton University Press.
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