Fugging (other)
Fugging may refer to: * Fugging, Lower Austria, a village in Lower Austria, formerly known as Fucking until 1836 * Fugging, Upper Austria, a village in Upper Austria, formerly known as Fucking until 2021 See also * Fucking (other) Fucking may refer to: * ''Fucking'', an English profanity derived from ''fuck'' * Fucking, a synonym for sexual intercourse * Fugging, Upper Austria, a village known as Fucking until 2021 * Fugging, Lower Austria, a village known as Fucking unti ...

Fugging, Lower Austria
Fugging () is a village in the municipality of Obritzberg-Rust, Sankt Pölten-Land, Austria. It is located in the state of Lower Austria and was known as Fucking until 1836. History of name Fugging was first referred to as Fucking in 1195 in a local monastery's parish records. Its name was later changed from Fucking to Fugging for an unknown reason . While it is not known why the village's name was changed, it has been speculated by its current mayor that because Fugging is closer to Vienna than the other village of Fucking is, it would have likely had more English-speaking visitors who might have raised questions regarding its name, which is also an English vulgar slang word for sexual intercourse. The village's placename signs are firmly mounted to prevent street sign theft. In 2012, there were reports that the village of Fucking in Upper Austria attempted to change its name to Fugging through a referendum after receiving large amounts of prank phone calls from English sp ...
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Fugging, Upper Austria
Fugging (), spelt Fucking until 2021, is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, located in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. It is north of Salzburg and east of the Inn river, which forms part of the German border. Despite a population of only 106 in 2020, the village has drawn attention in the English-speaking world for its former name, which was spelled the same as an inflected form of the vulgar English-language word "fuck". Its road signs were a popular visitor attraction and were often stolen by souvenir-hunting vandals until 2005, when they were modified to be theft-resistant. A campaign to change the village's name to Fugging, which is pronounced the same in the local dialect, was rejected in 2004 but succeeded in late 2020. Former name The settlement is believed to have been founded in the 6th century AD by Focko, a Bavarian nobleman. The Austrian region during this century was mostly under the domain of the Kingdom of the Ostrogo ...
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