Storage compartment that can be inserted into a cabinet element

Storage compartment, which is insertable into a cabinet element, which is formed from a blank of sheet metal, comprising a base part and edge regions surrounding the base part, which edge regions are bent upwards by about 90° with respect to the base part, a plate-shaped element insertable and held adjacent to one of said edge regions to form a wall of the storage compartment, one each of a first and a second of said edge regions forming a corner region of the storage compartment with a first side surface and a second side surface, in that the first side surface serves as a supporting surface for a plate side of the plate-shaped element inserted in the storage compartment, in that the second side surface covers a frontal surface of the plate-shaped element at least over a portion of its height, into which second side surface a projecting element is provided in such a way that the inserted plate-shaped element comes to lie between said supporting surface and said projecting element.