Electric heating device and method for its manufacture

An electric heating includes a housing having a partition wall which separates a connection chamber from a heating chamber for dissipating heat and from which at least one receiving pocket, protruding into the heating chamber as a heating rib, preferably tapering towards its lower and closed end, protrudes. A PTC heating element, including at least one PTC element and conductor tracks for energizing the PTC element with different polarities, is accommodated in the housing with the conductor tracks being electrically conductively connected to the PTC heating element and being are electrically connected in the connection chamber. A pressure element is received in the housing and holds heat extraction surfaces of the PTC element abutted against oppositely disposed inner surfaces of the receiving pocket. To reduce mechanical stress on the PTC element or an insulating layer and, while at the same time retaining the PTC heating element in the receiving pocket, at least one web acts in a positive-fit and/or force-fit manner on the pressure element.