Mochów [ˈmɔxuf] (German Mochau, Silesian: Mochōw) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Głogówek, within Prudnik County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border.

The name of the village comes from the old Polish words mom chów, and refers to being a place of shelter for the local people during the 13th-century Mongol invasions of Poland.

[2] After the Opole line of the Piast dynasty became extinct in 1532, the village was incorporated into the Lands of the Bohemian (Czech) Crown.

[2] From 1871 to 1945, the village was also part of Germany, and during World War II, the Germans operated the E607 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp at the local sugar beet factory.

[3] The village became again part of Poland after the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II in 1945.