Notes:

His home was said to be the scene of one of the Zurich's first adult baptisms.

The oldest known Landis homestead is located in Hirzel and was built in 1488 and is still kept by a Landis descendant, Alvin (Alwin) Landis, in the area now known as Oberhirzel, near Wadenswil, Canton Zurich, Switzerland. Address: Dorfstrasse 53, 8816 Hirzel, Canton Zurich, Switzerland. Others at the address include: Dieter, Hedy, Peter and Werner Landis.

Much of the early history of the Landis family centers on Rev. Hans Landis, the Anabaptist preacher from Hirzel, Switzerland, who was executed in 1614. Documents from this era are understandably difficult to verify, so future researchers must be cautious. Four sources appearing in the footnotes have provided a little more detail:

1372- A Heansen Landos of Uerikon is recorded. The name Landis comes from land and oesen which means land destroyer. The original spelling was Landoes.

1412-Heine Landos, "the fisherman from Uerikon," became a citized of Zurich.

1415-Rudi Landos is recorded.

1424-Heini Landos also became a citizen of Zurich.

1488-Another Heini Landos became a citizen of Zurich.

1538-A Landis is one of the names joining when Menno Simon founded the Mennonite Church in 1538.

The children listed for Hans and Katharine Schinz are taken from excerpts from the Hirzel Chart, which Henry Landis of Richterswil, Switzerland sent to Daniel M. Landis of Perkasie and Philadelphis, PA in 1913.

Johannes married SCHINZ Katherina in 1547 in Hirzel, Canton Zurich, Switzerland. Katherina was born in 1524 in Hirzel, Canton Zurich, Switzerland; died in AFT. 1560 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

1. LANDIS Ulrich was born in 1546.
2. LANDIS Rudolph was born in Sep 1548 in Horgan, Zurich, Switzerland.
3. LANDIS Anna was born in Jan 1548/49.
4. LANDIS Anna was born in Jul 1551 in Horgan, Canton Zurich, Switzerland.
5. LANDIS Hans was born in 1553; died on 30 Sep 1614 in Zurich, Switzerland.
6. LANDIS Agta was born in Mar 1553/54.
7. LANDIS Anna was born in Jan 1559/60.
8. LANDIS Ludi was born in Apr 1560.

Notes:

In 1525 one of the first adult baptisms took place in the home of Hans Landis in Zurich.

A Landis is one of the names joining when Menno Simon founded the Mennonite church in 1538 in Zurich. It would be assumed that it was this Hans Landis because his children were too young at this time.

Hans married UNKNOWN in ABT. 1515 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

Unknown married UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet]

Peter married UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet]