Sorø County
Sorø County was a Danish county on Zealand.
History
Sorø County was created in 1662 as a replacement of the old Sorø Fief. The county consisted of a single hundred. Beginning in 1748, Sorø County was administrated together with Ringsted County. At the 1793 Danish County Reform, with effect from 1798, Ringsted County, Korsør County, and Antvorskov were merged into Sorø County.As of 1 April 1970, it was merged with Holbæk County as West Zealand County.
List of county governors of Sorø
The governors of Sorø County from 1653 until its dissolution in 1970, were:| Portrait | Name | Term |
| Jørgen Rosenkrantz | 1653—1675 | |
| Niels Hansen Overberg | 1675—1678 | |
| Friederik von Vicregge | 1678—1684 | |
| Frederik Gabel | 1684—1695 | |
| Poul Moth | 1696—1699 | |
| 1699—1712 | ||
| 1712—1735 | ||
| Wilhelm August von der Osten | 1735—1743 | |
| Christoph Ernst von Beulwitz | 1743—1745 | |
| Heinrich von Reuss | 1745—1754 | |
| Carl Juel | 1754—1760 | |
| Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe | 1760—1764 | |
| Wolf Veit Christoph von Reitzenstein | 1764—1781 | |
| Carl Adolph Raben | 1781—1784 | |
| Gregers Christian Haxthausen | 1784—1787 | |
| Vilhelm Mathias Skeel | 1787–1798 | |
| Poul Christian Stemann | 1798—1827 | |
| 1827—1847 | ||
| Frederik Marcus Knuth | 1847—1848 | |
| Torkil Abraham Hoppe | 1848—1871 | |
| 1871—1902 | ||
| 1903—1913 | ||
| 1913—1928 | ||
| Vilhelm Topsoe | 1928–1955 | |
| 1955–1970 |