Sörgenloch lies among vineyards in the Rheinhessen wine region on the Selz and is a pilgrimage site of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz.

Widespread renaturalization measures on the Selz and the Zornheimer Berg (mountain) have, however, greatly enhanced the natural surroundings.

About the village's early history, quite little is known; in the 13th century, the Saint Alban's Abbey in Mainz may have held the lordship over Sörgenloch.

In the 19th century, while the vineyards were being cleared, several coins and grave finds from Roman times were unearthed.

As settlements formed around estates, where stood churches, the centres of Ober-Olm, Nieder-Olm, Klein-Winternheim and Sörgenloch came into being in Olm.

On the Sunday after 8 September, tribute is paid to Mary with a church service and a procession through Sörgenloch, and the Madonna statue is borne through the streets.

[1] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Argent, in base a mount of three issuant therefrom a grapevine vert, bearing each side a bunch of grapes azure, and on each of three upper stalks a cross bottonnée gules, the dexter in bend, the middle in pale and the sinister in bend sinister.

It is today a modern residential community on the edge of the urban agglomeration of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region.

A bus link towards Nieder-Olm/Mainz exists in the form of the ORN (Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe GmbH) route 652.