At that time the idea became fixed in my mind that I must live near a lake; without water, I thought, nobody could live at all. ~Carl Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 3.
Chiseled in stone, these Latin words decorate the elaborately designed portal of the C. G. Jung House in Kusnacht and commemorate the completion of the building on the bank of Lake Zurich: In 1908 Carl Gustav Jung and his wife, Emma Rauschenbach, had this house built in a cheerful, tranquil place. ~Carl and Emma, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 17
We [Carl and Emma] have in mind to build a house someday, in the country near Zurich, on the lake. ~Carl Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 17
In the summer in good weather Jung liked to analyze in the ‘garden room’ [ … ] directly on the lake. -Barbara Hannah, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 15
My memories begin with my second or third year. I recall the vicarage, the garden, the laundry house, the church, the castle, the Falls, the small castle of Worth, and the sexton’s farm. ~Carl Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 21
Instead of daydreaming I began building castles and artful!)J fortified emplacements out of small stones, using mud as mortar-the fortress of Hiiningen, which at the time was still intact, serving me as a model. ~Carl Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 24
1914 Helene Jung, married to Conrad Hoerni, lawyer in Kusnacht. ~The House that Jung Built, Timeline, Page 135
In the former children’s room on the upper story, Emma Jung set up her own study; here she saw her own patients and worked on her psychological writings. The room’s name derives from the intense blue of the carpet. ~Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 79
I began accumulating suitable stones, gathering them partly from the lake shore and part!); from the water. And I started building: cottages, a castle, a whole village[ … ] In the course of this activity my thoughts clarified, and I was able to grasp the fantasies whose presence in myself I dimly felt.’ ~Carl Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 23
Tomorrow is ‘Uffrichti’ [topping-out ceremony]. I have had the dimensions of the boathouse marked out. It fits well into its reedy corner. When you are next here, we must speak of it. ~Carl Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 41
In addition, he settled on the inscription over the entrance [in Latin]: “Carl Gustav Jung and his wife, Emma Rauschenbach, built this house in a cheerful, tranquil place in 1908. Summoned and unsummoned, God will be present.” ~Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 41
[ … ] my mother took me to the Thurgau to visit friends, who had a castle on Lake Constance. I could not be dragged away from the water. The sun glistened on the water.[ … ] The lake stretched away and away into the distance. This expanse of water was an inconceivable pleasure to me, an incomparable splendor. At that time the idea became fixed in my mind that I must live near a lake; without water, I thought, nobody could live at all. ~Carl Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 21
Carl Gustav Jung had very precise ideas about the building project and expressed them in a variety of ways. Emma Jung did not. She made only a few remarks about the project or about her relationship to houses – for example, in her letters to her mother. Memoirs by her close childhood friend, her cousin Gertrud Henne-Bendel, and her youngest daughter, Helene Hoerni-Jung, give us some sense of Emma’s life, however. ~Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 17
Emma Rauschenbach (1882-1955) was born in Schaffhausen and grew up in three different houses. Her grandfather, Johannes Rauschenbach-Vogel (1815 – 81), had developed the Rauschenbach machine factory, which exported its products worldwide; he also revived the bankrupt International Watch Company. When he died, he was thought to be the richest man in Schaffhausen in his days. Emma’s father, Jean Rauschenbach-Schenk (1856-1905), took over both factories, also taking up residence in his father’s villa: the Rosengarten (Rose garden). In that old house, with stable and garden directly on the Rhine, Emma and her younger sister, Marguerite, were born. ~Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 18
The Haus zum Rosengarten (Rose garden house) in the old town of Schaflhausen. Emma Rauschenbach lived here for the first fifteen years of her life. Next to the stepped house ofi687 (left) is a yard with outbuildings and stables. The tree-filled garden on the banks of the Rhine was designed in 1876 by Evariste Mertens. Within easy walking distance were the Rauschenbach machine factory and iron foundry as well as the Internationale Uhrenfabrik (International Watch Company IWC). ~Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 18 Photo
Carl Gustav Jung probably met Emma in the Rosengarten in 1896; at the time she was fourteen. The two of them took their marriage vows in 1903, and just a few years later were planning their own home. In it there are echoes, at least, of the three homes from Emma’s childhood and youth. Its location on the water corresponded approximately to the Rosengarten; its architecture and ornamental garden recalled the “old” Ölberg; and its driveway and courtyard were taken from the access road to the “new” Olberg. Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 20
Much of it [Villa in Darmstadt] struck us as labored and strange, not beautiful; moreove1~ the houses seemed to be somewhat light in construction and in some cases already looked rather passe. The gardens, by contrast, were charming; it would be nice ~f Uncle Mertens could have a look at them sometime.” Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 20
On a visit to Lago Maggiore in 1908, Emma remarked: “On our morning walk, we saw many fine villas with splendid southern gardens and have observed with satisfaction that there are still marry people who spoil themselves even more than we do.” Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 21
The house in Kusnacht was the family’s sanctuary, attended to and managed by Emma Jung. For C. G. Jung, it was a place for his professional activities associated both with his busy private practice and for writing down the scientific findings he derived from it. All the while, however, Jung was plagued with an all-but unending stream of powerful inner images and fantasies that he recorded in his so-called Red Book. Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 25
In 1907 Emma and Carl Gustav Jung purchased a lot of five thousand square meters in Küsnacht, on the right bank of Lake Zurich and near the city of Zurich, in order to build their home, which also housed his medical practice. The commune had begun forming in the Middle Ages from the core of the village on the village stream and from various hamlets on the lake, including Heslibach, and on the slopes that stretch out above it; at that time, it was surrounded by large vineyards on these slopes and by forests. By the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, well-to-do citizens of Zurich began to build summer homes here. The earliest records of a farm with a house, barn, wine press, pasture land, and vineyards in Heslibach also date from this period; it was sold by Peter Balier of Horgen to Heinrich Gugoltz in 1569. Part of this long stretch of property directly on the banks of the lake would become the site ofC. G. Jung’s house three hundred and forty years later. ~Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 29
In 1929-30, when Seestrasse was widened and the swimming beach designed by well-known architect Adolf Steger was laid out on the neighboring property to the southeast, a new henhouse and a garage building were constructed behind the Jung house. The latter was originally planned for the first car Jung bought, a black Dodge Brothers, in 1927, after his son passed his driving test. But in 1929, Jung himself and then his wife Emma also acquired their driver’s licenses, in June and November respectively. Thus a second car, a red Chrysler Roadster, was bought and the carriage house built as a double garage. Planned at first with saddleback or hipped roof, the building was ultimately realized with a flat roof. Hans Baumann (see under 1926) drew up the first design. The young architect Walther Niehus (1902-92), who worked with Baumann, was responsible for the second project and the final one. Niehus would marry Jung’s daughter Marianne three years later. He was committed to the ideas of the Bauhaus, which are manifested in the flat roof of Jung’s garage building. ~Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 48-49
Carl Gustav Jung had very precise ideas about the building project and expressed them in a variety of ways. Emma Jung did not. She made only a few remarks about the project or about her relationship to houses – for example, in her letters to her mother. Memoirs by her close childhood friend, her cousin Gertrud Henne-Bendel, and her youngest daughter, Helene Hoerni-Jung, give us some sense of Emma’s life, however. ~Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 17
Emma Jung-Rauschenbach, 1954, in the upper garden by the flowers for cutting. There was once a small bond in the northern section here, and the enormous weeping willow in the background may be a relic of that; its airy hanging branches would have surrounded a protected space with a small stone bench. ~Andreas Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 125
In the Rosengarten, the large, beautiful house on the Rhine [ … ) my grandmother was left behind somewhat helplessly. [ … ) There she sat, wearing a lace bonnet with ribbons, on the fauteuil by the window facing the Rhine, holding her gazette and her little lorgnon.[ … J There was an immense built-in cabinet with two doors in the parlor- a so-called wall bed – in which my mother slept; later it housed grandmother’s beautiful dolls. Standing at the window, I liked to watch the big ‘transmissions’: pillars standing in the Rhine with giant wheels that conducted hydropower via cables to the various factories along the Rhine. ~Gertrud Henne, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 18
Gradually, through my scientific work, I was able to put my fantasies and the contents of the unconscious on a solid footing. Words and paper, however, did not seem real enough to me; something more was needed. I had to achieve a kind of representation in stone of my innermost thoughts and of the knowledge I had acquired. Or, to put it another way, I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the ‘Tower’ the house which I built or myself at Bollingen. ~Carl Jung, The House of C.G. Jung, Page 26
