The legend goes like this: Once a devastating fire raged in the forest, which came to a standstill at this point. This place was marked with a cross that was singed on a crossbar. Hence the name "Black Cross" is derived.
The “Black Cross” later played an important role as a meeting place for the Haberer. The Haberer secret society came into being around 1700 when the Bavarian people suffered terribly from the Imperial-Austrian occupiers during the War of the Spanish Succession. The enemy mercenaries trampled law and order with their feet, so that the oppressed people spoke their own justice by denouncing the culprits in the Haberfeld drives with accusations, slanderous and mocking verses and a criminal court with infernal noise. In order not to be recognized, the Haberer masked themselves black and colored their faces with soot. In their ranks there was unbreakable loyalty and secrecy. The Haberer met on 30/31 for the last Haberfeld drift. October 1886 here at the black cross. After that the organization was banned.
The strongholds of the "Habererunwesens" were the Bavarian Oberland - especially the area around Tölz, Tegernsee, Miesbach, all the way down to Rosenheim. It experienced its heyday in the second half of the 19th century. The Haberer were mostly farmers, craftsmen and journeymen by profession. Haberer were often poachers in their "sideline". There was strict discipline in the ranks of the Haberer family. As with the Mafia or the Camorra, loyalty to the “patron” and secrecy were the top priority of the conspiratorial underworld or better undergrowth association. Breaking the Haberer oath was punishable by death.
Well, good old days, I don't know ... the accused of a Haber court was not allowed to defend himself and especially as far as moral misconduct was concerned, a number of gruesome things might have happened under the guise of people's justice.