 Elisabeth died on 8 February 1594 in the armory of Wiener Neustadt.Her body was repatriated to Coburg at the end of the year and buried in the Morizkirche on 30 December 1594.In 1598, Duke John Casimir had a twelve-meter-high alabaster epitaph by the sculptor Nikolaus Bergner erected on the tomb of Elisabeth and John Frederick, who had died in 1595.