Bearing assembly for a converter

A bearing assembly, comprising:

• a rolling bearing having an outer ring arranged in an inner housing, the inner housing being movable with respect to an outer housing in an axial direction of the rolling bearing by a two-row linear rolling bearing structure having two rows of rolling bodies, and rotational axes of all the rolling bodies in each row of the two-row linear rolling bearing structure lying in a respective common plane, and the respective common planes being at an oblique angle to one another, and at least one anti-rotation element engaged in a mating contour in the outer housing is connected to the inner housing;
• wherein the anti-rotation element is arranged centrally between the two rows of the linear rolling bearing structure;
• wherein the mating contour which interacts with the anti-rotation element comprises first and second sliding plates;
• and
• wherein each sliding plate includes a plate located in the outer housing, which plate is supported against a bearing element of the linear rolling bearing structure, the bearing element providing a rolling body raceway of the linear rolling bearing structure.