Ringsted County


Ringsted County was a Danish county on central Zealand. The largest town was Ringsted.

History

Ringsted County was created in 1662 as a replacement of the old Ringsted Fief. The county consisted of a single hundred. Beginning in 1748, Ringsted County was administrated together with Sorø County. At the 1793 Danish County Reform, with effect from 1798, Ringsted County, Korsør County, and Antvorskov County were merged into Sorø County.

List of county governors of Sorø

The governors of Ringsted County from 1653 until its dissolution in 1798, were:
PortraitNameTermNotes
Jørgen Christoffersen Seefeld1630—1662-
Henning Pogwisch1662—1664-
Jørgen Recdtz1664—1671-
Hugo Lützow1671—1680-
Adam Ehrenreich von Prehn1680—1684-
Frederik Gabel1684—1691-
Frederik Giese1692—1693-
Frederik Gabel1693—16942nd term
Poul Moth1694—1'700-
Johan Diderik Grüner1700—1712-
Jacob Frants von der Osten1712—1734-
Tomas Lillienskjold1734—1748-
Christoph Ernst von Beulwitz1743—1745-
Heinrich von Reuss1745—1754-
Carl Juel1754—1760-
Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe1760—1764-
Wolf Veit Christoph von Reitzenstein1764—1781-
Carl Adolph Raben1781—1784-
Gregers Christian Haxthausen1784—1787-
Vilhelm Mathias Skeel1787–1798-