11 Facts About Rapperswil

Rapperswil is a former municipality and since January 2007 part of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Wahlkreis of See-Gaster in the canton of St Gallen in Switzerland, located at the east side of the Lake Zurich.

Rapperswil is often referred to as the "town of roses" because of its extensive displays of roses in three designated parks.

Old town is dominated by the Schloss Rapperswil located at the peninsula called Endingen, Lindenhof and Herrenberg on Lake Zurich perched atop this rocky hill at the bay of Kempraten.

In 1442, during Old Zurich War, Rapperswil was in alliance with Zurich and the Habsburg Dynasty.

In 1458 Rapperswil was controlled by the Swiss Confederation as a so-called Gemeine Herrschaft, i e under control of two cantons of the Old Swiss Confederation and their representative, a Vogt at Rapperswil castle.

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In 1656 and 1712, Rapperswil was involved in wars between the Catholic and Reformed cantons of the Old Swiss Confederation.

Rapperswil was at first part of the Helvetic and the canton of Linth's capital city.

Rapperswil is the home of the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers, and their Diners Club Arena is situated on Obersee lakeshore.

In Rapperswil there are several sites situated that are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance: Schloss Rapperswil with the Polish Museum including the Polish national archive, the medieval Rathaus located at the Hauptplatz square, and the Seedamm region including Heilig Husli and the remains of the prehistoric wooden bridges respectively the neolithic stilt house settlements located there.

Rapperswil railway station is a nodal point of the Sudostbahn and the S-Bahn Zurich on the lines S5, S7, S15, S26 and S40.

Since 2008 the bus service in Rapperswil-Jona has been provided by the Verkehrsbetriebe Zurichsee und Oberland .