Barchovek (Changer)

This village got its name from the neighboring and much older village of Barchova, whose name was created by adding the suffix -ov to the personal name Barech or Barch, which is believed to be an abbreviation of another personal name Bartolomej, which has the same origin as Bareš. From the middle of the 16th century, the two villages differed in their names - Velký and Malý Barchov, in the following century they were called Malý Barchůvek and...