Editing Fugging, Upper Austria (section)

== Name change ==
A 2004 vote on changing the village's name failed.<ref name="the-register" /> "Everyone here knows what it means in English, but for us Fucking is Fucking{{mdash}}and it's going to stay Fucking" said the mayor<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haywood |first1=Anthony |url=https://archive.org/details/lonelyplanetaust00anth |title=Austria |last2=Walker |first2=Kerry |publisher=Lonely Planet |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-74104-670-0 |edition=5th |page=217 |access-date=7 November 2009 |url-access=registration}}</ref> as he pointed out that the name had been ''Fucking'' for 800 years.<ref name="the-register" />
[[File:Fugging Town Sign - 2022.jpg|thumb|The updated sign ]]
In April 2012, rumours spread through international media that villagers had been thinking about changing the name of the village or had actually voted to change it. The satirical website ''The Spoof!'' published a story<ref>{{cite web |first=Sidney |last=Bollocks |url=http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i106192 |title=Fucking Village To Change Name |publisher=The Spoof! |date=18 April 2012 |access-date=26 April 2012 |archive-date=3 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503002441/http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i106192 |url-status=live }}</ref> that was expanded in the British tabloid the ''[[Daily Mirror]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fucking-village-told-they-cant-be-renamed-798433 |title=No Fugging chance: Fucking village told they can't be renamed Fugging because name is already taken |newspaper=Daily Mirror |date=18 April 2012 |access-date=26 April 2019 |archive-date=8 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708064335/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fucking-village-told-they-cant-be-renamed-798433 |url-status=live }}</ref> The story was then reported elsewhere as news, including by ''[[The Guardian]]'' and ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', who said that a vote had taken place to change the name to Fugging, but it was discovered that a [[Fugging, Lower Austria|village with that name]] already existed in the municipality of [[Obritzberg-Rust]] just west of [[Herzogenburg]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Tom |last=Meltzer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/25/silly-placenames-dull-and-boring |title=Silly placenames: welcome to Dull, twinned with Boring |newspaper=The Guardian |date=25 April 2012 |access-date=14 December 2016 |archive-date=2 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240902012217/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/25/silly-placenames-dull-and-boring |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Tony |last=Phillips |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-phillips/fucking-austria-weird-city-names_b_1439680.html |title=Citizens Vote to Rename Austrian Town From F—ing to Fugging |publisher=Huffington Post |orig-year=20 April 2012 |date=6 December 2017 |access-date=26 April 2012 |archive-date=23 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423224826/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-phillips/fucking-austria-weird-city-names_b_1439680.html? |url-status=live }}</ref> The mayor denied these rumours.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shields |first=Michael |date=18 April 2012 |title=Nothing profane about our name Austrian hamlet says |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-austria-village-idUSLNE83H02B20120418 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420234734/https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/18/uk-austria-village-idUSLNE83H02B20120418 |archive-date=20 April 2012}}</ref>

The council of Tarsdorf voted in their 17 November 2020 session to have the village's name officially changed to Fugging, effective 1 January 2021.<ref name="fucking-to-fugging">{{cite news|last=Dallison|first=Paul|date=26 November 2020|title=Austrian village of Fucking to be renamed Fugging|work=Politico Europe|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/austrian-village-of-f-king-to-be-renamed-fugging/|access-date=27 November 2020|archive-date=20 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201220032950/https://www.politico.eu/article/austrian-village-of-f-king-to-be-renamed-fugging/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Barron>{{cite news|date=26 November 2020|title=Fugging Hell: Tired Of Mockery, Austrian Village Changes Name|work=Barron's|agency=Agence France-Presse|url=https://www.barrons.com/news/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name-01606414506|access-date=29 November 2020|archive-date=2 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240902012045/https://www.barrons.com/news/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name-01606414506|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Kundmachung Gemeinderatssitzung |work=[[Tarsdorf]] |url=https://www.tarsdorf.at/system/web/GetDocument.ashx?fileid=2606351&cts=1606119162 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204005525/https://www.tarsdorf.at/system/web/GetDocument.ashx?fileid=2606351&cts=1606119162 |archive-date=4 December 2020 |language=de}}</ref> A video by Danish [[YouTuber]] {{ill|Albert Dyrlund|da}}, which drew attention to the village's peculiar name, was reportedly stated as being the reason for the name change. Around 28,673 people visited the village following the release of the video, disrupting local residents with the excessive filming and trespassing of local property such as the village's elementary school and residents' homes.<ref>{{cite web|last=Brunner|first=Lea|date=13 November 2020|title=Es war einmal ein kleines Örtchen namens 'Fucking'|url=https://www.tarsdorf.at/system/web/GetDocument.ashx?fileId=2622666&cts=1616666836|access-date=21 December 2020|work=Tarsdorf Aktuell|publisher=Municipality of Tarsdorf|page=5|volume=59|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413214027/https://www.tarsdorf.at/system/web/GetDocument.ashx?fileId=2622666&cts=1616666836|archive-date=13 April 2021|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=29 December 2020 |title=「Fucking」村改名「福敬」，有無不敬？ |trans-title=Is it disrespectful to change the name of "Fucking" village to "Fugging"? |url=https://www.thenewslens.com/article/145268 |access-date=29 September 2021 |website=The News Lens |language=zh |archive-date=29 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929100842/https://www.thenewslens.com/article/145268 |url-status=live }}</ref> The following month, signs with the new name were vandalised to read "Fucking".<ref>{{Cite web|first=Lisa|last=Nagl|date=8 December 2020|title=Unbekannte beschmierten Ortstafeln in Fugging|url=https://www.meinbezirk.at/braunau/c-lokales/unbekannte-beschmierten-ortstafeln-in-fugging_a4388162|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201220033520/https://www.meinbezirk.at/braunau/c-lokales/unbekannte-beschmierten-ortstafeln-in-fugging_a4388162|archive-date=20 December 2020|access-date=19 December 2020|website=meinbezirk.at|language=de}}</ref> One of the last remaining signs with the old name was given to the Haus der Geschichte Österreich in [[Vienna]]. In September 2021, village mayor Andrea Holzner stated that the disruptions had ceased, and that the name change had the intended effect.<ref>{{cite news|title=„Fucking“ jetzt im Museum - Ortsschild heiß begehrt|date=5 September 2021|access-date=17 December 2024|language=de|url=https://www.oz-online.de/artikel/1069775/Fucking-jetzt-im-Museum-Ortsschild-heiss-begehrt|website=oz-online.de}}</ref>