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:
PortraitNameTerm
Jørgen Rosenkrantz1653—1675
Niels Hansen Overberg1675—1678
Friederik von Vicregge1678—1684
Frederik Gabel1684—1695
Poul Moth1696—1699
1699—1712
1712—1735
Wilhelm August von der Osten1735—1743
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
Poul Christian Stemann1798—1827
1827—1847
Frederik Marcus Knuth1847—1848
Torkil Abraham Hoppe1848—1871
1871—1902
1903—1913
1913—1928
Vilhelm Topsoe1928–1955
1955–1970