There is little known of Zurndorf’s prehistory. The first documentation of this Heidebauern community as a market town first appears in 1207. The names of landholders in 1546 included:
Gleichentheill
Grummensteiner
Teutscher
Strobner
Rueprecht
Fleischacker
Druffet
Vischer
Reissner
Lohmer
Strobbl
Wienner
Ruepl
Straubner
Rassner
Frannz
Spannring
Fruhwirt
Maletisch
The following owners of vineyards in Zurndorf in 1565 included the following:
Khreuspekh Gleichenthaill
Puringer Prukhner (Bruckner)
Weber* Danninger
Maz Hunger
Feierl Wimmer
Wohlfart Hafner
Fleischacker Adner
Khlamer Clawenwirth
Strohmayer Pardt
Holl Dokhler
Zindl Schlehenhueber
Khegl Hackhl
Habschtile
In the Tax List in 1647 the following family names are identified:
Bognar
Gajer
Gottermann
Hansz
Huszty
Jakob*
Kovacs
Natlicz
Paull
Peck
Pecs
Scheznik
Szabo
Windischgratz
In the 1770 Tax Lists the following families are listed:
Bernard
Cechmeister
Czernak
Cziglmar
Czotmann
Caninger
Denk (Tenk)
Ecke
Etz
Fischer*
Fronk
Gracz
Graff
Hoffner
Huszti
Kiristaier
Kraicz
Kuricz (Kurutz)
Lehner
Macher
Meixner
Messler
Mihal
Niczinger
Pammer
Paner
Piller
Pless
Raiff
Raiss
Riegel
Saffer
Samer
Schmeltzer
Siebenstich
Siexstein
Stelzer (were a lesser noble family: country gentry)
Stumpa
Svalb
Szaller
Tor
Waise
Wolffarth
Family names of the children in the Evangelical Lutheran School from 1783 to 1788 included:
Falb
Goldl
Hadl
Heilmann
Kornhausel
Kopplinger
Luterberger
Madern
Meixner
Mossbontner
Muth*
Nitschinger
Ofner
Olber
Pschaiden
Rechnitzer
Siebenstich
Six
Schmelzer
Stoiber
Strobel
Pamer
Urspringer
Weiss
Wurzenberger
Zimmermann*
Zechmeister