Unterfucking is a populated place that is part of
Sankt Marienkirchen bei Schärding
Sankt Marienkirchen bei Schärding (German for "St. Mary's Church near Schärding") is a municipality in the district of Schärding in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
Geography
Sankt Marienkirchen lies in the Innviertel
The Innviertel (l ...
,
Schärding
Schärding ( , Bavarian name: Scharing) is a town in the northern Austrian state of Upper Austria, the capital of the district of the same name, and a major port on the Inn River. Historically, it was owned by the Wittelsbach family, which is r ...
,
Upper Austria
Upper Austria ( ; ; ) is one of the nine States of Austria, states of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg (state), Salzbur ...
,
Austria
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. Unterfucking has often been included in lists of
places with unusual names, due to the fact that part of its name bears a similarity to the English-language expletive "
fuck
''Fuck'' () is profanity in the English language that often refers to the act of sexual intercourse, but is also commonly used as an intensifier or to convey disdain. While its origin is obscure, it is usually considered to be first attested ...
".
Geography
The name of the village was based upon the 6th century
Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...
n noble name "Focko".
In the 1800s, whilst it was a part of
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military ...
, the village's name was spelt as "Unter Fucking". By the 1960s, it was officially confirmed that it was spelt without the space. The village was also formally surveyed in the 1940s by the
Nazi German
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...
authorities in
German-occupied Austria. It is located near the village of
Oberfucking as well as
a village that until 2021 was known as Fucking (renamed Fugging). Despite the former Fucking village opting to change its name due to English-speaking tourists regularly stealing the village's sign and mocking the name, both Oberfucking and Unterfucking opted to retain their names despite speculation they might follow suit. The mayor of Sankt Marienkirchen bei Schärding affirmed there would be no change as it was only considered by the council as any other business and they unanimously voted against any change.
Unterfucking has two farmhouses there and is the highest point of the district of Sankt Marienkirchen bei Schärding.
In popular culture
In 1929, the British playwright
Noel Coward
Noel or Noël may refer to:
Christmas
* , French for Christmas
* Noel is another name for a Christmas carol
Places
* Noel, Missouri, United States, a city
*Noel, Nova Scotia, Canada, a community
*Noel Park, a suburb in Greater London, Engla ...
unsuccessfully looked for a European tenor to play Carl Linden for the London
West End debut of play, ''
Bitter Sweet'', as he had intended to have the tenor perform under the pseudonym of "Hans Unterfucker", named after the village.
See also
*
Fugging, Upper Austria
Fugging (), spelled 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 Germa ...
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Oberfucking
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Eggerding
*
Mayrhof
References
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Cities and towns in Schärding District