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Sick of ridicule, especially after being treated as a pun on social media, the residents of an Austrian village decided to change the name of the town to Fugging in the coming year.
The locals are tired of this town’s current name, Fucking, which can be dated back to the 11th century.
On Thursday local time, the city council meeting minutes revealed that from January 1st, 2021, the village of about 100 people located 350 kilometers west of Vienna will be named Fugging.
In recent years, more and more tourists from English-speaking countries flocked to that area, took photos with the road sign at entrance of the village, and then posted them on their social accounts, sometimes even posed lewdly to match the name.
According to reports, some people even stole the road sign. In consequence, the authority used anti-theft concrete when building new signs.
Now, most villagers are fed up with this.
“I am sure that the village needs to be renamed.” said Andrea Holzner, the mayor of Tasdorf, the city where the village belongs.
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She told the regional daily Oberösterreichische Nachrichten (OOeN): “I really don’t want to say anything more --- we have seen too many abnormal tourists over the past few years.”
According to Austria’s Die Presse, the villagers known as Fuckingers have already been “tired of boring tourists and their pranks”.
But not everyone is happy with the change.
“People don’t have a sense of humor now, do they?” an OOeN reader asked.
Another pointed out: “They got free publicity. Shouldn’t they be thankful for such an interesting name?”
Set in this town, an Austrian novelist Kurt Palm wrote a novel. The novel was later adapted into a movie called “Bad Fucking”. After that, the town suddenly became famous...
The town was founded in 1070. Local legend says that Focko, a Bavarian nobleman in the 6th century, built the first settlement in the town, and a map from 1825 marked this area as “Fucking”.
Crossing the border of Bavaria, Germany, there is another village called “Petting”.
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