The aim of the invention is the application of simple production methods for electrical resistance heating elements with a honeycomb body and use total capacity with regard to the specific electrical power per volume unit. Said aim is achieved for an electrical resistance heating element with a honeycomb body of resistance material with positive temperature coefficients for the resistance (PTC resistance), in which the channels, for throughflow of a medium for heating, comprise metallised walls and are electrically alternately contacted after the fashion of a chess-board on the front faces of the honeycomb body by means of a front face metallisation, whereby an insulation region (1) is alternately let into the metallisation (3) on the walls of the channels running from the front faces, whilst the front face metallisation (2) completely covers the front faces. Possible fields of application for the above (without limitation thereto) are particularly additional heaters and windscreen heaters in motor vehicles or small, self-regulating and rapidly-responding room space heaters.