In the end of the 17th century the village became part of the Habsburg Monarchy. During the massive migration led by
Arsenije Čarnojević in 1690 many Serbs came to
Apatin,
Sombor, and Prigrevica. A new wave of colonisation occurred in 1748 when many German colonists settled in Prigrevica. The colonists came from many different regions in southern Germany and East France. The gathering centre was in Ulm, Germany and from that point they were transported by the Danube to Apatin, which became the main base of the German expansion in Vojvodina. When the Yugoslav Partisans came on October 24, 1944, they liberated Prigrevica from Axis occupation.
AVNOJ declared its mainly German population as public enemies. Also in Prigrevica the German civil population became victim of excessive revenge of the partisans. They were partially shot, tortured to death or sent to one of several concentration camps that existed until 1948. After the
Second World War, Prigrevica was settled by colonists who mostly originated from
Lika and
Banija. ==Ethnic groups (2002 census)==