Electromechanical wheel brake device

In an electromechanical wheel brake device, with an electric motor that has an annular rotor, with a rotation/translation conversion gear that can be driven to rotate by the electric motor, and with a frictional brake lining that can be pressed against a brake body by means of the rotation/translation conversion gear, wherein the electric motor (18) is a transverse flux motor (18) with an annular excitation winding (22) that encompasses an imaginary motor axis, the electric motor (18) having a number of yokes (24) distributed over the circumference of the excitation winding (22) and can be excited by this winding, and a number of poles (30) that preferably corresponds to the number of yokes (24), the poles (30) being guided so that they can move together in relation to the yokes (24), on a circular path in the circumference direction of the yokes (24) and, in order to generate a circular motion, can be magnetically attracted by the yokes (24) through excitation of the yokes (24).