 About 500, the Franks settled here; the placename "Uminisheim" goes back to the tribal elder Umin.Eimsheim, at the time belonging to the Wormsgau (a county), had its first documentary mention in 762 in a donation document in which Egilolf transferred a vineyard in the "Huminsheimer Marca" to the Lorsch Abbey.In the early 11th century Eimsheim belonged to the Bishopric of Worms, which later ceded it to the “Weidas” Cistercian convent near Dautenheim.