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Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 11:05 pm
by Tombola
http://ooe.orf.at/news/stories/2533547/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It has already been stolen 13 times!!!
Police catches "Fucking" thieves:
Three Germans were caught trying to steal the "Fucking" village sign...
It has already been stolen 13 times but this time police caught the thieves...
The thieves carried special tools with them but failed...
for that reason they tried to dig it out...
police caught them in the act...
the municipality considers changing the name...
the Lower-Austrian village Fugging was also spelt "Fucking" some hundred years ago...
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 8:36 am
by tabbs
Wikipedia in English has a fairly long
article about Fucking which explains why some tourists may be tempted to "grab" a sign as a souvenir. The name change story, however, seems to be a legend.
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:27 am
by xpetrovic
In Lithuania, there are settlements
Šveicarija,
Paryžius and
Londonas in radius of 5 km. What is more, there's a village called
Kaukazas 15 km away
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 6:15 pm
by tabbs
Neat. There are quite a few places named (after) Switzerland, basically whenever there are some hills in an otherwise flat region.
But such a combination is sure interesting.
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:54 pm
by lmviterbo
It would be way more interesting if London were towns.
That map seems to be made just for fun. Paryžius and Londonas are not towns, just farms or settlements with
7 people each in 2001.
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:25 pm
by tabbs
Would help to know more about the background. Some places in Europe were named after the original destinations of migrants, for example. Another funny combination: In the Northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein there is a town called
Sommerland (summer land), and one village/hamlet in that place is Grönland, spelled like the German spelling of that big icy island ...
http://www.amt-horst-herzhorn.de/images/groenland.jpg
Christian
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 3:21 am
by HBoZ
The head (north) part of isle of texel
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 2:19 pm
by de*lerger
Also related (can be found in Friesland):
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 5:49 pm
by androl
lmviterbo wrote:It would be way more interesting if London were towns.
You have to look in a different country.
There's a quite large town/city called London, lying at the Thames River, in Middlesex County, even with a quarter called Hyde Park.
Where is it?
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 5:58 pm
by lmviterbo
androl wrote:There's a quite large town/city called London, lying at the Thames River, in Middlesex County, even with a quarter called Hyde Park.
Haha, great. A "quite large town/city" could only be London, Ontario, but I had no idea about its river being the Thames too, or any of the rest.
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:46 pm
by claudio vda
The Finnish town of
Kokkola sounds very nice in Italian because
coccola or
coccole (the
c are pronounced like
k) mean
cuddling in the sense mother/child but also lover/lover.
For an Italian, Kokkola sounds a very sweet and cozy place, where no child will cry
https://en.eurobilltracker.com/profile/?city=48821
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:09 am
by krakauer
There are more funny-sounding town names in German-speaking countries.
Try this sequence on Google Maps
https://www.google.pt/maps/dir/Kissing, ... 560732!3e0
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 1:14 am
by lmviterbo
A little hasty, going from Fucking to Wedding in less than 7 hours…
Anyway, for many people, this is arguably the cycle of life:
https://goo.gl/maps/MugFGFT69kL2
Note: this topic / thread should be on the Off-Topic Discussions forum.
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 1:30 am
by androl
On new year's day, thieves stole the sign of Drogen ("drugs") in Germany
http://rtlnext.rtl.de/cms/schild-geklau ... 21052.html
Re: The town of Fucking, Austria.
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 7:35 pm
by Aatos99
claudio vda wrote:The Finnish town of
Kokkola sounds very nice in Italian because
coccola or
coccole (the
c are pronounced like
k) mean
cuddling in the sense mother/child but also lover/lover.
For an Italian, Kokkola sounds a very sweet and cozy place, where no child will cry
https://en.eurobilltracker.com/profile/?city=48821
I just noticed this post
Nice to see other meanings for that name of city, don't know how well it matchs to the place
