 Thus, on 2 September 1578, Abbess Ursula Steinhauserin von Neidenfels transferred all power over Zornheim to the Prince-Archbishop of Mainz Daniel Brendel von Homburg, whereas the convent kept its landholdings until it was dissolved in 1781.It was handed over on 12 November of the same year to the University of Mainz endowment fund.The year 1691 was very grim for the village as, like many other villages in the Nine Years' War, it was burnt down.