Visquard is a typical Rundwarften dorf ('round warft village') with a diameter of around 450 meters, where the church is located at the highest point and winding streets and paths lead all around.

In the two dike registers of the Greetsiel office from 1625, we read Fisquard and in the so-called Kopfschatzung ('head estimate') from 1719 we find the place name in the form in which it is still valid today.

Arend Remmers derives vis – contrary to folk etymology – not from 'fish' (as represented in the village's coat of arms), but from Old Frisian wiske or Middle Low German wisch(e) ('meadow').

The second part of the name goes back to werth, werder, warden and originally stands for a "surface elevation in a wetland" and later also for an artificially created terp or wurt.

It can be found in the list of his possessions in Federgo compiled by a certain Gerbert under the name bona mea in paco Federit gewe.

An archaeological excavation in the Visquard area carried out in 1913 uncovered urns and grave goods whose shape and drawings refer to pre-Christian times.

He ruled in the first half of the 14th century and published a law code together with the neighboring chieftains of Westerhusen, Hinte and Twixlum as well as with the Drost Wiard of Emden.

These included seven linen weavers, four shoemakers, three each carpenters, bakers and tailors, two bricklayers and blacksmiths as well as one cooper and glazier each.

For centuries, the natural Tiefs and drainage canals that run through the Krummhörn in a dense network were the most important means of transport.

[6] Peat, which was mostly obtained in the East Frisian boglands, played an important role as heating material for the residents of the Krummhörn for centuries.

The peat ships brought the material along the East Frisian canal network to the Krummhörn villages, including Visquard.

On their return trip to the settlements, the peat boatmen often took with them clay soil from the marsh as well as the dung of the cattle, which they used to fertilize their peat-harvested areas at home.