Abstract: A hydrostatic thrust bearing includes several bearing bushings and support bushings with axial spacer sleeves and radial flanges. Pairs of pressure surfaces to which oil can be admitted are arranged one behind the other in load application direction. The pressure surfaces of each pair of pressure surfaces are arranged frontally opposite each other. The thickness of the radial flanges of the bearing bushings is smaller than the radial flanges of the support bushings. The wall thickness of the spacer sleeves of the bearing bushings increases from bearing bushing to bearing bushing. The wall thickness of the spacer sleeves of the support bushings decreases in the same direction from support bushing to support bushing. Oil-conducting bores in the radial flanges of the support bushings ensure a uniform temperature level of the bearing bushings and support bushings.