Austrian Place Names

Ian Shires of Budapest sent this piece after reading an article in Private Eye dated 10 November 2005

It seems that the good folk of F***ing in Austria are getting a little annoyed at Brits stealing their village's signs.

The mayor of the village, Siegfried Hauppl told reporters: "But we didn't give it a second thought until tourists started stealing the road signs. So many signs have been stolen recently that we even had a vote last year on whether to rename the town, but eventually decided to keep it as it is. After all, F***ing has existed for 800 years, and will probably exist for another 800, but only if British tourists stop stealing our F***ing signs."

I thought that this was a hoax, so I had a look on Multimap and a few other web maps. It's true. You can find F***ing just north of Salzburg. Apparently there is a Wank-am-See ('Wank on the Lake') as well, but I was unable to find this. I suppose it is a private matter, even in these more open-minded times. However, there are at least six Windpassings in Austria. I wonder if they have a motorway Ausfahrt?