Fucking Austria? No, but Fucking, Austria. Sorry, but I’m not trying to fuck around here – but just wanted to introduce a village in Upper Austria – namely, Fucking.

From Wikipedia

Fucking (IPA: /ˈfʊkɪŋ/) is a small settlement (population c. 93), part of the municipality of Tarsdorf,[2] in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria, located at 48°04′02″N, 12°51′49″E, bordering Bavaria. [3] It is near the city of Salzburg, and also the town of “Tittmoning”. The village is known to have existed as “Fucking” since at least 1070 and is named after a man from the 6th century called Focko. “Ing” is an old Germanic suffix meaning “people”; thus Fucking, in this case, means “place of Focko’s people”.[4]

The settlement’s most famous feature is a traffic sign with its name on it, beside which English-speaking tourists often stop to have their photograph taken. It is a commonly stolen street sign.[5] Significant amounts of public funds are spent on replacing the stolen signs. In August 2005 the road signs were replaced with theft-proof signs welded to steel and secured in concrete to make the signs harder to take.[6]

In 2004, due to the stolen signs and embarrassment over the name, a vote was held on changing the name, but the town’s residents voted against doing so.

For more evidence to show that there’s really Fucking village, I’ve posted the Fucking map above. Click on the Fucking map to navigate using Google Maps.

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