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Hall church with tower. Built as a Reformed church. Enlarged 1615, rebuilt 1769.

The church stands on the site of a medieval church that was probably built around 1300. The spire is made of wood. Under the wooden floor are four gravestones of the pastors from the time before the reformation.

In a study conducted by the National Bureau for Archaeological Heritage Research, it was established that the church was built around 1050. In a deed from 1188, the parish of Dodewaard is mentioned for the first time among the goods of the Count of Dalen. In a letter from 1316, a parish church is mentioned, in which a valuable cross was said to have been located, which already enjoyed a certain fame at the time and was transferred to the collegiate church of St. Walburg in Arnhem because of the "unsafe" in Dodewaard. In this letter from 1316 by Reinald I of Gelre, Dodewaard, which had to give up its relic cross to Arnhem, is called an unsafe and unpopulated place. However, the tendency of this letter justifies doubt about the correctness of this mention. Reinald was looking for a reason to donate the cross to the newly established church in Arnhem, which he had endowed. The church of Dodewaard appears on a list of churches from 1395. In the confirmation of a donation on 16 October 1410, "the parishes of Dodewerde and Hyen" were mentioned. In 1613, the first minister, Hermannus van Broekhutzen, was confirmed "in the church service of Hien and Doyweert".

Important neo-church with tower.

The Hervormde Kerk is a Protestant place of worship dating from 1939. Since 2002, after the Reformed Church was decommissioned in each location, it has been used as the central church of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN) in Exloërmond. The church organ was built in 1976 by the firm Gebr. Reil (Heerde).

Dutch Reformed Church. Single-nave late Gothic building, consisting of a nave (16th century) and a narrower 15th century choir. In the west facade above the entrance a pointed arch niche with traceries; above this facade a wooden tower. Pulpit 1709; copper baptismal arch 17th century; Ten Commandments board 1642; three copper crowns; two silver communion cups 1655. Bell frame with bell by Geert van Wou, from 1504.

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.

The church replaced a smaller church from 1892. Striking and quite rare example of reformed church building from the reconstruction period in traditionalist forms.

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.

On a high mound, simple, three-sided closed church from 1795, internally enriched with thirteen mourning boards (1637-1843) of the Sytzama family. Against the choir wall six large carved tombstones Sytzama (1607-1759). In the churchyard seven early 19th century tombstones of the Haerama family. In the roof turret bell of anonymous founder from the 13th century, diam. 79.7 cm. Mechanical tower clock.