The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse about 9 km west of the Rhine, between Mainz and Worms.

On 17 June 766, a man named Hairdin made the first gift to the Lorsch Abbey of a vineyard that yielded 4 Ohm – about 160 L – of wine.

Her brothers, who were styled von Leiningen-Hartenburg, raised fierce opposition to this, and Margarethe had to call on Elector Palatine Friedrich I for help.

After Margarethe's death, her son Reinhard I of Leiningen sold Elector Palatine Philip “the Upright” a share of the villages in question.

Wintersheim, Eimsheim and Dolgesheim were united in 1801 at the lowest level of French administration and were given a common mayoralty.

In 1875 came the founding of the singing club Einigkeit (“Unity”) Thomas Bischmann is the Ortsbürgermeister, elected in May 2019.

[1] The municipality's arms might be described thus: Azure a windmill's windshaft and four sails attached thereto in saltire argent.

It is a Gothic Revival “room” church built of hewn stone with a three-sided apse and a hipped roof with a flèche.