The Jewish community of Worms was established by the early eleventh century, and the oldest tombstone still legible dates from 1058/59.

The cemetery is protected and cared for by the city of Worms, the Jewish community of Mainz-Worms, and the Landesdenkmalamt of Rhineland-Palatinate.

[7] On the oldest preserved gravestone the name of the buried – in any case it is a male person – can no longer be read due to damage.

The Jewish community paid a fee for the protection of the Jews, which at the end of the 15th century amounted to 80 Malter.

[16] After this intervention a comprehensive restoration of the cemetery was done in 1625, which David Oppenheim donated, which he also did during the reconstruction of the Worms Synagogue, which was severely damaged in 1615.

This part is a remnant of the outer city fortification, which was destroyed by troops of King Louis XIV of France in 1689 during the Nine Years' War.

[12] In the 19th century the gravestones stylistically resembled those of Christian cemeteries, inscriptions were now often written bilingually: Hebrew and German.

In 1911, immediately afterwards, a new Jewish cemetery was established, since the "Heilige Sand" no longer had any space and could not be expanded due to the renovation.