Conciliation cross is a stone cross built mostly on the ground, where he became a capital crime or disaster.
In the Middle Ages it was possible in punishing offenders apply the system of so-called conciliation law, when the wrongdoers saved a task, which atoned for his crime. Such a task in addition to settlement with the affected families could be carving a stone cross erected on the spot where the crime was committed – symbol of conciliation with the family of his victim. These memorial crosses are mostly located in central and western Europe.