Abstract: The invention relates to a textile composite material used to stabilize, consolidate or reinforce soils and layers of earth, and which can also be used as a load-carrying drainage or filtering layer and comprises at least one nonwoven fabric (1). The disadvantage of nonwovens, used alone or in textile composites made of various plastic nonwovens, lies in their limited load-carrying capacity. To create a low cost textile composite material comprising at least one nonwoven fabric, having a high tear resistance in a main load direction and the ability to absorb high tensile forces without undue stretching, exclusively parallel, straight, load-carrying plastic filament yarns (2) are knitted, sewed or Raschel-knitted onto the nonwoven (1).