Rolling bearing having position-determining device

A rolling bearing comprising:

• bearing rings that are rotatable relative to each other;
• a row of rolling elements configured such that the rolling elements can roll between the bearing rings;
• and
• a position-determining device configured to determine an absolute angular position of the bearing rings relative to each other, wherein the position-determining device includes:
• field patterns that are arranged on a surface of a first of the bearing rings and distributed around a circumference of the first bearing ring, wherein fields of the field patterns have field heights with discrete values, wherein each field pattern is a fixed arrangement of a predetermined number of fields in which positions of the fields relative to one another in the field pattern are fixed, and wherein the field patterns differ by the field height provided for each individual field,
• an eddy current sensor on a second of the bearing rings to scan the field patterns, and
• an evaluation device configured to assign an associated angular position signal, which describes the absolute angular position of the first and second bearing rings relative to each other, to a scan of each field pattern.