Über den Ort » Marquard, Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality, Orange Free State, Südafrika

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 by an influential Dutch Reform minister, JJ Marquard with the help of Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, the commandant of the Orange Free State in 1905. Town on the Laaispruit, 169km east-north-east of Bloemfontein and 45km south-west of Senekal. It was established in 1905 on the farm Varschfontein and attained municipal status in the same year. Named after J J T Marquard, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Winburg, who had pleaded for the establishment of the town.