Hydraulic damping cylinder, in particular for a knee prosthesis

A hydraulic damping cylinder, in particular for a prosthetic knee joint, comprising a housing, a cylinder chamber which is provided in the housing and which is filled with a hydraulic fluid, and a piston which is arranged in said cylinder chamber and which can be moved in the cylinder chamber by way of a piston rod which is introduced into the cylinder chamber, wherein, in the housing (2), there are provided at least two separate receiving chambers (17, 21), which are of different size and are connected to the cylinder chamber (3) by way of fluid ducts, for hydraulic fluid displaced from the cylinder chamber (3) during a piston movement, which receiving chambers are in each case separated, by way of a diaphragm (19, 24), from a compression chamber (20, 23) filled with a compressible fluid that forms an energy store, wherein, upstream of the relatively large receiving chamber (17), there is connected a throttle device (27) which forms a flow resistance for the hydraulic fluid flowing into the receiving chamber