Sorø County () 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: Portrait Name Term Jørgen Rosenkrantz 1653—1675 Niels Hansen Overberg 1675—1678 (acting) Friederik von Vicregge 1678—1684 Frederik Gabel 1684—1695 Poul (Hals) 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
See also List of county governors of Korsør
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