Axial piston engine

Axial piston machine (1) with a housing (2), with a cylinder drum (5) which is arranged to be rotatable in a housing interior space (3) and in which there are formed a plurality of cylinder bores (6) in which pistons (7) are movably guided, which pistons are supported on a swash plate (11) via slide shoes (8), with a retracting device (15) on which the slide shoes (8) are supported during the retracting movement of the pistons (7), and with a restraint device (16) which is mounted in the housing (2) and is movable against a spring (40) and the purpose of which is to support the retracting device (15) on the housing (2), characterised in that the retracting device (15) has engaging therebehind, on its side facing away from the swash plate (11), a supporting device (16a) connected to the swash plate (11), wherein there is provision, between the supporting device (16a) and the retracting device (15), for an axial spacing (a) which is dimensioned to be of such a size that, when the axial piston machine (1) is in operation, the retracting device (15) abuts against the supporting device (16a) before the retracting device (15) is deformed beyond its elastic deformation limit, and the restraint device (16), in the working position thereof pushed into the housing interior space (3), engages behind a substantially radial locating face (11a) on the swash plate (11) or an add-on piece thereof.