 In 1660 Elisabeth entered the Lutheran convent at Herford, and in 1667 she became abbess of the convent. She seems to have been an effective manager of the convent lands, but also she welcomed more marginal religious sects, including the Labadists, at the request of Anna Maria van Schurman (see De Baar 2021 for a discussion of the extended friendship between Elisabeth and van Schurman), and Quakers, including Penn and Barclay.