According to legend, the Brotjacklriegel owes its name to a baker, Brotjackl (EN: Bread-Jacky), who is supposed to have hidden on the mountain during the Thirty Years' War. However, the name probably only came into being later during survey work by the French under Napoleon when because of a misunderstanding of the Bavarian Broada Jaga-Riegl (Breiter Jägerriegel; EN: Broad Hunter's Sill) the name Brotjacklriegel was written down.