 Assigned to the "Oberamt" of Alzey beginning in 1457, Dorn-Dürkheim was temporarily occupied by the French, before the community, along with the whole province of Rhenish Hesse passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse.In 1897, Dorn-Dürkheim acquired a railway link on the Osthofen–Gau-Odernheim line.Since the Second World War, Dorn-Dürkheim has belonged to the newly founded federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, at first in the Alzey-Worms district.