Luckhoff

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Lückhoff is a small merino sheep farming town in the Free State province of South Africa. It was established on the farm Koffiekuil in 1892 and named after a Dutch Reformed Church minister Reverend HJ Luckhoff.

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Coordinates: 29°45′S 24°47′E / 29.750°S 24.783°E / -29.750; 24.783
Country	South Africa
Province	Free State
District	Xhariep
Municipality	Letsemeng
Area [1]
• Total	30.92 km2 (11.94 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	3,699
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	46.1%
• Coloured	49.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.7%
• White	3.9%
• Other	0.2%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Afrikaans	77.2%
• Sotho	11.3%
• Xhosa	7.6%
• English	1.2%
• Other	2.7%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	9982
PO box	9982
Area code	053
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Nowadays the bulk of the sheep found in this district are dorper sheep and not merino. A small number of farmers also stock an indigenous sheep breed known as the damara.

The town is located 82 km north-west of Philippolis and 56 km west of Fauresmith. It was established in 1892 on the farm Koffiekuil and probably named after Heinrich Jacob Luckhoff (1842-1943), Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Fauresmith at that time.^[2]

• "Luckhoff Ward Map (Letsemeng - FS161 Ward 1)". Municipal Demarcation Board. Archived from the original on 27 May 2017.

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