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- 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.
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1521 - Abt 1590 (69 years)