Bollingen Tower
Coordinates: 47°13′16″N 8°54′18″E / 47.2211°N 8.9051°E
The Bollingen Tower is a structure built by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. In appearance, it is a small castle with four towers. It is located in the village of Bollingen on the shore of the Obersee (upper lake) basin of Lake Zürich.
Jung bought the land in 1922 after the death of his mother. In 1923 he built a two-story round tower on this land. It was a stone structure suitable to be lived in. Additions to this tower were constructed in 1927, 1931, and 1935, resulting in a building that has four connected parts.
A second story was added to the 1927 addition after the death of Jung's wife in 1955, signifying "an extension of consciousness achieved in old age."
For much of his life Jung spent several months each year living at Bollingen. The Tower is now owned by a family trust and is not open to the public.
The Bollingen Foundation, created in 1945 but inactive since 1968, was named after it.
In 1950, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Jung set up a stone cube on the lakeshore, just west of the tower, inscribing it on three sides. One side contains a quote taken from the Rosarium philosophorum:
Hic lapis exilis extat, pretio quoque vilis, spernitur a stultis, amatur plus ab edoctis.
Here stands the mean, uncomely stone,
'Tis very cheap in price!
The more it is despised by fools,
The more loved by the wise.
A dedication is also inscribed on this side of the stone: IN MEMORIAM NAT[ivitatis] S[uae] DIEI LXXV C G JUNG EX GRAT[itudine] FEC[it] ET POS[uit] A[nn]O MCML (In memory of his 75th birthday, C.G. Jung out of gratitude made and set it up in the year 1950.)
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