P R I E B E : Before 1945 predominantly in the west-Prussian district Marienwerder, (Garnsee, Gilwe, Groß Krebs, Groß Tromnau, Mahren, Marienwerder, Ottotschen, Wandau und Zigahnen) partly also in the neighbouring district Rosenberg Riesenburg, Rosenberg and Groß Nipkau), furthermore to Halle an der Saale, Kassel, Konitz, Ludwigsburg, Lübeck, Preußisch Mark und Pyritz in Pomerania resident been. Confession Protestant. The name Priebe (Pribe, Prib, Priewe, Prybe, Prübe and ae.) is a short form of the wendisch slavic first name Pribislaw. (slava. *pribyti>, increases, arrives < + urslaw. *slava >fame, honor ). This name, also Prib(i)slaus, came in the 12. century in the at that time Slavic areas east the Elbe, that is in the later Mecklenburg, Brandenburg and Pomerania before. The name has itself from there eastward extended. In history it is become known by several wendische princes from the time "Albrechts of the Bear" and "Heinrichs of the Lion" as well as from the history of Eastern Pomerania. An ancestor line with the Obotriten prince Niklot (1100 - 1160),( whose son Pribislav was likewise called ) to want to manufacture only over the recurring name assignment would be presumptuous, and is rather a dream than reality. Some older name occurrences are here specified : 1212 P r i b e and son Tessimer are mentioned with a land sales to the monastery Klebow in Pommern 1368 Johann P r i b e is mentioned with a land renouncement opposite the Duke Barnim the VII. 1393 a Prybe was under the "Vitalienbrüdern" of the Klaus Störtebecker. They named themselves Vitalienbrüder and supported the mecklenburgische Duke-house between 1390 and 1395 in the fight against the Danish queen Margarete.
1562 to Usedom a Lutheran pastor Andreas Pribe 1568 to Stolp in Pommern a Tewes P r i e b e 1583 to Stolp in Pommern Juergen Priebe. 1583 ein Jürgen P r i e b e genannt. 1588 Sylvester P r i b e from Bärenwalde by Neustettin in the university registers of Frankfurt /Oder mentions.He latinisiert his name in Pribenius, becomes a professor of the logic and ethics Stadthagen, Rinteln and Herford and dies 1627 as a rector to Osnabrueck. That here treated family Priebe comes from the area about Belgard and Neustettin in Eastern-Pomerania. This area, was devastated especially strongly by the Swedish-Polish wars and the permanent border-feuds between the Pomerania Dukes, the Polish Starosten von Draheim and the Kurfürsten of Brandenburg. Through the fights, many farmers lost her goods and chattels, house and farm. Complete communities left in the first and second third of the 17. century's her devastated and plundered farms and pulled, often in groups, eastward into the at that time Polish Konitz. There, the name is presented Priebe since 1553. Partially, the name was modified into the Polish Pryba. Most Pomerania farmers moved into the duke-like Prussia even further, where the country presented itself in the also desolate become villages of the Weichselniederung as well as the villages on the height about Marienwerder favorable settlement-possibilities. As far as like possibly settled itself connected in nearer surroundings, so also Michael P r i e b e ,the ancestor of this ancestry, to Mahren in the Kirchspiel Neudörfchen, at that time to the district Riesenburg, later to the district Marienwerder proper. Still in the year 1945, they could determine the origin of the families at the name of the inhabitants of Ottotoschen,Mahren, Wandau and other places.In the oldest church-book of Neudörfchen, the name turns 1682 for the first time on the occasion of the wedding of the Reimann Priebe, son of the deceased Michael Priebe, farmer-man from Mahren, mentions. 1689, the wedding of the Michael Priebe is, also son of the aforementioned Michael Priebe written down. The descendants of the Michael P r i e b e was predominant in the agricultural area, usually as farmers in the villages Mahren, Ottotschen, Wandau, Gilwe, Groß Krebs, Littschen and Zigahnen. In all these villages put her the mayors, the head-mayors, village-juryman, from time to time, the Church-father and school-directors.In a list over the occupation of the villages belonging to the Neudörfchenschen farms, P r i e b e were for example in Ottotschen 1778/78 by altogether 16 farmers 6 by the name of, such, in the interest index of 1780/81. in a country card of Wandau are 1817, 4 farmers P r i e b e registered, likewise of 16. Because of the frequency of same first names again and again occurring at the same time (especially Christian) was either numbered this farmer Priebe, for example in Mahren Christian P r i e b e from I. to IV, or they got nicknames, that transmitted itself also on their sons.So there was a " S t r u c k - P r i e b " in Wandau because this planted a high shrub-hedge ( Struck = shrub) around his farm. Remains of this shrub still existed also 25 years later " V o s s - P r i e b ", because his farm lay in an area passed through by a brook, that " Fuchs-Riege ". a name, that they had brought from Pomerania. Riege is called in the Wendischen brook and is suffix of numerous villages that in Pomerania. " P e t c h - P r i e b "(dialectal > Pech = bad luck), because this Priebe was married to a Mrs. Pech ( Mrs.Badluck), and had also much bad luck in his life. " P u s t - u t - P r i e b ", (dialectal = breath out-Priebe) this Priebe it lived at the village-end and away from the street. If he went with dark into the village, he always took a lantern. As soon as het entered the pub with the burning lantern, the reputation resounded him contrary to: " Pust-ut Prieb ". The small selection at first names is family-specific, and
has transmitted itself in the course of the centuries.Is recognizable
that the first-born children were named after the father of the father
or directly after the father The sex of the child played no role,
the daughters got the female form of the names then. Whether with these and others in the church-book named Priebe a relationship with the ancestors Priebe exists, could not be determined until now. A relationship is to be suspected with the Kersten Priebe, named in the churches book Garnsee to Marienwerder, that Maria Q u a n d t marries out of Scharpenort in the Draheimschen Starostei, as well as to assume its sister Maria, that marries in the same year Hans Schwartz out of Rederitz to Deutsch Krone. Both come from Zacharin in Pomerania.Like on the separated country usually, many Priebes married among each other,there is also a showy quantity of marriages with the neighbor-clans - this over several generations away. Therefore, in the family-research the ancestor loss. In the 19th century left many sons of the Priebe-farmers its villages, became workman, occupation soldiers, employee, official, sales people and teacher. In the year 1945, also the last members of the family must would rehearse leave its west Prussian homeland, in which they had been almost 350 years settled. Today however they are not like at that time in the 17th century when they came out of Pomerania, closely together, but rather scatters over all parts of Germany and also in oversea resident.
As a source for the family-research, the Protestant churches books of Neudörfchen served especially (District Marienwerder in West-Prussia), that of 1768 to 1817 a sensitive space. These volumes were missing already before the second world war. It was not easy to bridge it. Fortunately are received of this church since 1779 Konfirmandenlisten, in which except the name of the Konfirmanden also its dates of birth, that are indicated name of the fathers and its occupation names. Further lists helped Ottotschen, Mahren, Wandau over the occupation of the villages belonging to the Neudörfschen farms and other and interest index out of the years 1777-1781 over the churches book space, furthermore copy out of land register acts. |