Sorø County.

Sorø County (Danish: Sorø Amt) was a Danish county on Zealand.

History

Sorø County was created in 1662 as a replacement of the old Sorø Fief (Sorø Len). 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 (Vestsjællands Amt).

List of county governors of Sorø

The governors of Sorø County (Danish: Amtmænd, singular Amtmand) from 1653 until its dissolution in 1970, were:

PortraitNameTerm
Jørgen Rosenkrantz1653—1675
Niels Hansen Overberg1675—1678 (acting)
Friederik von Vicregge1678—1684
Frederik Gabel1684—1695
Poul (Hals) Moth1696—1699
Johan Diderik Grüner[da]1699—1712
Jacob Frants von der Osten[da]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
Christian Ludvig Stemann[da]1827—1847
Frederik Marcus Knuth1847—1848
Torkil Abraham Hoppe1848—1871
Emil Vedel[da]1871—1902
Anton Groothoff[da]1903—1913
Axel Henrik Bille-Brahe[da]1913—1928
Vilhelm Topsoe1928–1955
Vilhelm Wedell-Wedellsborg[da]1955–1970

See also