It is mentioned in the Wormser wall-building ordinance from around 900 as one of the places that shared responsibility for maintaining the city wall of Worms.

In 1208, a Gimbsheim clergyman by the name of Heinrich was mentioned as being a member of the Cathedral Chapter at Worms.

Beginning in 1798, all important municipal business was handled through the town hall, not, as it heretofore had been, through the parish register.

Between 1798 and 1814, Gimbsheim was in the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German), belonging at that time to Napoleonic France.

The same year, the Niederrheinhalle (“Lower Rhine Hall”) came to be as a centre for sport and culture.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[4] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Gules on a bend argent a cramp sable, in a chief of the third, a bunch of grapes palewise, flanked by four rye stalks, two each side, growing from the top of the bunch of grapes, from which also grow two vine stems, on each side, each ending in a grape leaf, the two leaves further flanking the rye stalks, all Or.

Heraldry of the World, on the other hand, identifies the grain as wheat, which along with the grapes appears in the arms to represent the municipality's two main crops.

Although the cramp, usually identified in German blazon as a Wolfsangel, was already appearing as a municipal heraldic charge in the 18th century, its origin is unknown.

This would have shown a silver shield covered by a red cross, and in the silver space left in the upper dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left), a gold circle overlaid with a Black man's head, representing Saint Maurice (who was himself Black).

[6] For more than 30 years now, Gimbsheim has had a further representative besides its mayor, namely a young and most pretty lady, the Kerweprinzessin (kermis princess).

Each kermis princess holds the title for a year, during which she represents her home municipality in other regions.