The village will change name to Fugging
(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)The Austrian village of F****** will officially change its name to Fugging after residents grew tired of tourists stealing signs and mocking the name with crude jokes.
English speakers had made the village a travel destination, seeking out the area to take selfies with street signs.
Locals had also been left exasperated after a series of incidents in which tourists stole the signs.
Minutes from a council meeting published show that the village of about 100 people, which is some 350km (215 miles) west of Vienna, will be renamed as Fugging from January 2021.
“I can confirm that the village is being renamed,” said Andrea Holzner, the mayor of Tarsdorf, the municipality to which the village belongs.
“I really don’t want to say anything more – we’ve had enough media frenzy about this in the past."
According to the Austrian daily Die Presse, the villagers “have had enough of visitors and their bad jokes”.
"I’m sure each of them think they’re the first to think of it but believe me they’re not," one weary resident told the Austrian Times.
“We’ve grown very tired of it and we’re doing something about it. We are a very traditional community and we find this sort of public display shocking."
Locals had previously found their village in the news after it was the backdrop for a book by Austrian novelist Kurt Palm, which was later turned into a film named Bad F******.
In 2018, Pornhub offered free premium access to residents of F****** and other towns with names such as Titz in Germany or Big Beaver in Pennsylvania.
The village was first officially inhabited in about 1070, but local lore suggests that a sixth-century Bavarian nobleman called Focko actually founded the settlement.
Just across the border in Bavaria in Germany there is a village called Petting and F****** lies only a mile away from Tittmoning.
