The village is located on the left side of the Breslau-Magdeburg glacial valley, where the Große Röder flows into the Black Elster, which reaches its narrowest point a few kilometers to the east in the seven-kilometer-wide Schraden lowlands between Elsterwerda and Merzdorf, and then swings to the northwest.

Declared a nature reserve in 1981, the roeder lowland is home to one of the most enduring populations of the endangered Elbe beaver.

In addition to pottery, the finds include lance and arrowheads, axes, knives, swords, spurs, and bucket handles.

Fourteen years later the peasants from Prieschka, Würdenhain, Haida, and Reichenhain revolted against the bailiff Fuchs from Mühlberg.

They set out their complaints in a document entitled "Die 10 Klageartikel der Dorfschaften Werdenhayn und Heide" and sent it to Dresden via the Amtmann.

Among other things, they complained about the impairment of fishing and forestry rights as well as reduced wages for the construction of the castle in Mühlberg.

However, the simple population did not give up the old customs and traditions easily, and in 1578 it was reported from the parish: "In Prieschka and Oschätzchen praise dances are held, with all kinds of frivolity, with twisting and other things.

When this highly contagious infectious disease broke out in Prieschka in 1626, twenty people died in the village, about half of the population.

In January 1637, the troops of the Swedish general Johan Banér moved into their winter quarters in Torgau until early summer.

In 1692 the Prieschka mill estate came into the possession of the Commanding Officer Andreas Gottfried von Kirchbach by inheritance.

At the end of September, the corps of Generals Dobschütz and Tauentzien, with 30,000 men, took up quarters in Liebenwerda for ten days.

According to the legend, a French horseman got stuck in the mud and sank on the broad meadows, a piece of land between Prieschka and Würdenhain on the Black Elster.

Shortly after, in 1849, the manor was abolished and in 1852, the first construction works for the regulation of the Black Elster began near the neighboring village of Zeischa, after the Prussian provincial government had tried to develop plans for this project since 1817.

Fishing in the Röder and Schwarze Elster rivers had become largely impossible due to the increasing pollution from newly established industrial plants, such as the pulp mill in Gröditz.

He settled with the estate, which included about 700 acres of land, about 500 meters north of Prieschka village and had a new manor house built there in 1868.

The remaining four hundred acres were purchased by the previous estate inspector, Georg Steblein (1855–1909), who died in February of that year.

Since the Alte Röder now lacked flow velocity, the Prieschka mill owner received compensation of 30,000 marks from the government district.

[25][26] When the Red Army reached the village at the end of the Second World War on April 22, 1945, nine residents and seven soldiers were shot dead.

The Land Reform Ordinance (BRVO) provided for the expropriation and division of large private and state-owned estates of more than 100 hectares, including all buildings, living and dead stock, and other agricultural assets.

Shortly before the Peaceful Revolution, the construction of a central drinking water supply began in Prieschka, followed by the development of roads and a new sewerage system in 1993.

On the same day, the municipality was incorporated into the town of Bad Liebenwerda together with the villages of Dobra, Kosilenzien, Kröbeln, Lausitz, Maasdorf, Möglenz, Neuburxdorf, Oschätzchen, Thalberg, Theisa, Zeischa and Zobersdorf.

[29] After the Second World War, due to the influx of displaced persons, the population of Prieschka increased to 533 in 1946 and reached its peak.

[33] Several paved bike paths along the Black Elster River connect Prieschka with the sights of the surrounding area and the Lower Lusatian Heath Nature Park.

About three kilometers northeast of Prieschka is the Zeischa natural swimming lake, where there is also a campground with 137 pitches and bungalows for rent.

As early as the beginning of the 16th century, there was a mill on this site along the course of the Black Elster River, which originally belonged to the noble family von Schleinitz from Meissen.

After being converted to produce compound feed for cattle and pigs during the GDR era, the mill has been dormant since its reprivatization shortly after the Peaceful Revolution.

To commemorate those who died or went missing in the Second World War, there are plaques with a total of fifty names on the left and right of the entrance to the Memorial Hall.

[16] Since 2004, Haus Prieschka has been home to the pro civitate group of companies, a handicapped-accessible residential and care facility for forty people.

In addition, the local newspaper Der Hammer in Prieschka has been published six times a year since 2016, informing residents about news and events in the village.

The electoral Saxon chapel master and composer Friedrich Christoph Gestewitz was born in Prieschka on November 3, 1753.