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Monumental neo-church with tower. Built as Dutch Reformed Church.

Situated on elevated ground, on the site of the medieval cruciform church that was demolished in 1879, a small hall church designed by A. van der Haven in the 'Waterstaat style' in 1880-81 with a three-sided closed consistory room under a slate saddle roof, with a gilded weathercock, and with a built-in front tower, fitted with four clock faces with gilded numbers and hands above the double sound holes, a brick balustrade with four corner turrets and a hexagonal, slate-covered spire with a tower cross.

Late neo-Gothic church with historic tower.

Single-nave church with a bell tower on the church roof. The church was founded around 1300 and expanded in the 15th and 16th centuries. The remaining lower part of the original tower is part of the church space. In the 19th century, the late Gothic choir closure was replaced by a straight wall, so that two bays of the choir remain. Wooden barrel vaults; in the choir wall posts with ornament in early Renaissance forms. Inventory: pulpit from the second quarter of the 17th century, a lord's pew with arch panels, 17th century and a lord's pew in Louis XV style; three painted text boards, 17th century and tombstones from the 16th and 17th centuries, silver baptismal font (1806) and two communion cups dating from 1741 (Jacob Visbach).

Reformed Church with Reformed Federation signature, Replaced a historic church that was destroyed by a dike breach in 1820.

Although the current village church of Hekelingen is a simple 19th century hall church from the design rooms of the then Ministry of Public Works, its roots go back much further in time. The first church of Hekelingen was probably built in the thirteenth century by order of the Lord of Putten. Until 1847 it stood on the spot where the cemetery is still located, on the Meeldijk. Little is known about this building. There are also no images that reliably depict the church. It was probably a single-nave Gothic church. We only come across reports about the building when its maintenance is a major concern for the municipality. And that is often the case. Hekelingen, like all villages on the island, never recovered from the battle of the Elizabeth flood. The building sometimes hangs like a millstone around the neck of the church treasurers. In the 18th century, trees were grown around the church which, once mature, were sold to the residents of country estates on the Vecht and the surrounding area. This money was used to renovate the church. Another mention is that from the years of Reverend Westhovius. He was a young minister of Hekelingen and was called by Admiral de Ruyter to go along as chaplain on the ships. In that capacity he is present at the death of the admiral. From a legacy he receives as thanks for his service a silver communion set and a richly decorated pulpit for the church. Both have however disappeared in the mists of time.

Reconstruction church with turret and roof turret.

Nice neo-romanesque church with saddle roof tower in Glanerbrug. Restoration second half 2000s.

Dutch Reformed Church. Founded in 1792 by Jonkvrouw van Doorn, Lady of Drimmelen (commemorated in a stone above the entrance, with coat of arms), to replace the church in Oud-Drimmelen. Hall church, closed on three sides at the short ends; arched windows; high slate roof with roof turret. Internal wooden wall pilasters and wooden barrel vault with two rosettes with mermaids. Adjoining parsonage from the time of construction. Iron entrance gate between two bluestone pillars also from the time of construction. 18th century copper lecterns and baptismal font holder. Restored in 1965.

Dutch Reformed Church, consisting of a three-sided closed choir of brick with tuff stone bands and buttresses, from the second half of the 15th century; a lower Romanesque nave from the 12th century, made of tuff stone, with small windows in round arch fields separated by wall dams, enlarged to the west in the 13th century with a brick bay, and a simple flat tower from the end of the 14th century, raised with a section in the 15th century and crowned by a spire constricted from four to the back.