Fucking Austria

By FrigginRandom on November 12th, 2008 in Articles | Comments

A Little Austrian Town Named . . .

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Are the residents called Fuckers?
What would you be learning at the Fucking High School ?
If your friend came from another town, he wouldn’t be your Fucking friend.

Fucking (IPA: [?f?k??]; rhymes with “looking”) is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf[2], in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria.[3] It is located 32 km north of Salzburg and 4 km east of the border with Germany, half an hour’s ride from Petting in Bavaria. 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 indicating the people of the root word to which it is attached (cf Beowulf’s “Scylding” – people of Scyld); thus “Fucking,” in this case, means “(place of) Focko’s people.”[4] The village has a population of 93.