The only building that used to stay here till 1910 was a gamekeeper's lodge managed by several generations of the Paleczek family. After extension of the railway lines České Budějovice - Želnava and Čičenice - Volary in 1910 and subsequent interconnection of Bohemia and Bavaria through the village of Nové Údoli, the railway tracks met right in the place which is presently called Černý Kříž. As this place had not borne any local name, the new railway station wedged in between Hraniční hvozd and Mrtvý luh got the official name "U černého kříže" (By the Black Cross) according to the high dark cross standing nearby, on the right side of the Studená Vltava, close to a non-preserved bridge connecting today's Černý Kříž with the settlement of Dobrá. The name of the railway station was altered to only "Černý Kříž" (Black Cross) in 1924.
The original wooden cross remained at its place to the early 1960's. In 1997, a new black cross was erected in the place of its famous predecessor, thus thanks to the Stifter Šumava Region Railway Club of Volary. In 2006 it was renewed into the form and look it had originally had according to the photographs of the period. The life-size sculpture of Jesus Christ was attached to the black cross in 2009. On the occasion of  the natives gathering, the fair in České Žleby and the 300th anniversary of the first written record of České Žleby, the black cross was reconsecrated. Finally, it was the same as the one our ancestors could have seen. It is simple, made of wood and black, obviously. It is placed in the picturesque nook on the right side of the Studená Vltava, some seventy steps from the place where the road from Černý Kříž in direction of Pěkná crosses Volary railway track.