Bąków [ˈbɔŋkuf] is a village in Gmina Strumień, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

[2][3] It had to be older as it was divided into two parts (one belonging to dukes and one to nobility), and was later mentioned also as Rycholtow (1440), Richuoltwo (1447), Rychultow (1473, 1529), Rychuld (1568).

[4] Politically the villages belonged then to the Duchy of Teschen, a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became part of the Habsburg monarchy.

In 1552 Bąków (Bunkow) was bestowed by Wenceslaus III Adam, Duke of Cieszyn upon Czelo family, which in the early 17th century owned also Rychułd.

It was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II.