sentences:  Chorzów is then mentioned as "Chareu" or "Charev" in 1257 and then "Charzow" in 1292.The last name may originate from the personal name "Charz", short for "Zachary" and may mean "Zachary's place".The "a" in the early names may have been later modified to the current pronunciation with "o" perhaps due to similarity to the common adjective "chory"="ill" and a presence of a hospital (which was moved in 1299 to Rozbark at the gates of Bytom).