Filter cartridge, in particular with a block-like construction, comprising a plurality of fold walls created by folding in a zig-zag fashion for a medium to be filtered to pass through from one edge area of the zig-zag folding in the direction of the edge area of the folding on the opposite side made of a material which can be permeated by the medium to be filtered provided with offsets formed by roll forming, with those offsets which lie in contact with each other acting as spacers and stiffeners between adjacent fold walls, wherein the offsets of adjacent fold walls which face one another are stuck together.