What is "marquard"

Marquard is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa that serves Winburg in the northwest. The town was set up in 1905 by an influential Dutch Reform minister, JJ Marquard, with the help of Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, the commandant of the Orange Free State. It was established on the farm Varschfontein and attained municipal status in the same year.

Marquard is 169 kilometers east north-east of Bloemfontein and 45 kilometers south-west of Senekal. The town was named after J J T Marquard, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Winburg, who had pleaded for the establishment of the town.

Marquard is a small farming town in South Africa.

Marquard may also refer to:

As last name:

• Jürg Marquard (born 1945), Swiss journalist and businessman
• Odo Marquard (1928-2015), German philosopher
• Rube Marquard (1886–1980), American pitcher in Major League Baseball

As first name:

• Marquard Bohm (1941–2006), German actor.
• Marquard Gude (1635–1689), German archaeologist and classical scholar
• Marquard Herrgott (1694–1762), German Benedictine historian and diplomat
• Marquard Schwarz (1887–1968), American freestyle swimmer
• Marquard Sebastian von Schenk von Stauffenberg (1644–1693), Prince-Bishop of Bamberg

As a single name

• Marquard of Randeck (1296-1381), Patriarch of Aquileia
• Marquard von Berg (1528–1591), Prince-Bishop of Augsburg
• Marquard von Salzbach (d.1410), Teutonic Knight