Ringsted County

File:Ringsted Herred.png

Ringsted County.

Ringsted County (Danish: Sorø Amt) 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 (Ringsted Len). The county consisted of a single hundred (Ringsted Herred). 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 (Danish: Amtmænd, singular Amtmand) from 1653 until its dissolution in 1798, were:

Portrait	Name	Term	Notes
File:Jørgen Christoffersen Seefeld.png	Jørgen Christoffersen Seefeld	1630—1662
	Henning Pogwisch	1662—1664
	Jørgen Recdtz	1664—1671
	Hugo Lützow	1671—1680
	Adam Ehrenreich von Prehn	1680—1684
	Frederik Gabel	1684—1691
	Frederik Giese	1692—1693
	Frederik Gabel	1693—1694	2nd term
	Poul (Hals) Moth	1694—1'700
File:Johan Didrik Grüner.png	Johan Diderik Grüner	1700—1712
	Jacob Frants von der Osten	1712—1734
	Tomas Lillienskjold	1734—1748
File:Christoph Ernst von Beulwitz.png	Christoph Ernst von Beulwitz	1743—1745
File:Heinrich VI., Graf von Reuß-Köstritz (1707-1783).jpg	Heinrich von Reuss	1745—1754
File:Carl Gustaf Pilo, efter, 18. årh. - Portræt af gehejmeråd og stiftamtmand Carl Juel.png	Carl Juel	1754—1760
File:Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe 1703-1770.jpg	Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe	1760—1764
File:Veit Christof von Reitzenstein.png	Wolf Veit Christoph von Reitzenstein	1764—1781
	Carl Adolph Raben	1781—1784
File:Gregers Christian Haxthausen.png	Gregers Christian Haxthausen	1784—1787
File:Vilhelm Mathias Skeel.png	Vilhelm Mathias Skeel	1787–1798