While the church is way too old and is in the wrong region of Europe to have been witness to any of those (it was founded in 1069 AD), the location is pretty significant for the last correlated struggles in Switzerland in the 19th century - and in fact, it's also about five miles (eight kilometres) away from a catholic/protestant "border", but the actual conflict ran right within the local society itself: "liberal" - laicist - against "conservative" - catholic - forces). It's actually called "Kulturkampf" - culture war. The churches *do* symbolise this around here, in fact.
Interesting fact: Only a couple of months ago, our (well, different village, but same region) two local wind orchestras were reunited - after 110 years of separation between liberals and conservatives. The reason of the split-up: In 1912, some 60 years after the actual conflict had ended, the local priest banned the "heathen" (liberal) musicians from playing in "his" church; the more devout members then regrouped to be allowed to play at service ... Hence, two orchestras (and rather posh ones, too) in a single village with 2000 inhabitants ... actually, there were less than 800 when it happened.
Europe. And Switzerland. That's Europe, only more so (all vices, all virtues, in splendid isolation right at the heart of the whole affair).
M.