She was influenced by Indian religion in her reluctance to kill anything living , and became influenced by the sectarians Nicolaus Knutzen Teting and Hartvig Lehmann , religious refugees from Flensborg to whom she gave asylum . She refused to participate in the church services and held her own . She ruined herself on charity . In 1632 , she sold her estate to Augusta of Denmark and fled with her five children to Sweden , where she became a protégée of the queen , Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg . In 1634 she visited Hoyersworth and experienced in October the devastating Burchardi flood . In Sweden she resided in Västervik and thereafter at a little property outside Stockholm until her death
Burchardi flood
Burchardi flood
Anna Ovena Hoyer