Marie Elisabeth zu Mecklenburg

Marie Elisabeth, Duchess of Mecklenburg (24 March 1646 - 27 April 1713) was a princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1712, following the unplanned late pregnancy and ensuing resignation of the formidable incumbent, Henriette Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Marie Elisabeth became Princess Abbess of Gandersheim Abbey, but she died the next year.

Biography Marie Elisabeth was the fourth child from the second marriage of Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg. Her mother, Marie Katharina (1616–1665), was the elder daughter of Julius Ernst, Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg (1571–1636). The inscriptions in Alexandrine verse addressed themes of death and transience, and were composed by the poet-pastor Arnold Gottfried Ballenstedt (1660–1722). Abbess Christina's earthly remains had been placed in this tomb on 3 August 1693. Marie Elisabeth's sarcophagus followed on 11 October 1713. A couple of centuries later, in 1892, Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, had the tomb restored.