Low-wear stroke piston combustion engine

The reciprocating internal combustion engine such as a large diesel engine comprises a cylinder having a cylinder liner (30) and a piston (5), which is movably arranged and has a piston ring (20) at its outer surface. A material of the cylinder liner and the piston rings of the piston with respect to a wear resistance is optimally aligned on each other, where the piston rings have a coating made of chrome ceramic at a surface directed against a running surface (35) of the cylinder liner, which contains a hard phase fraction of 0.05-1.70%. The reciprocating internal combustion engine such as a large diesel engine comprises a cylinder having a cylinder liner (30) and a piston (5), which is movably arranged and has a piston ring (20) at its outer surface. A material of the cylinder liner and the piston rings of the piston with respect to a wear resistance is optimally aligned on each other, where the piston rings have a coating made of chrome ceramic at a surface directed against a running surface (35) of the cylinder liner, which contains a hard phase fraction of 0.05-1.70%. The cylinder liner consists of cast iron with hard phases embedded on the cast iron. A hard phase particle is embedded in a pearlitic matrix, has an average expansion of 10-350 mu m, and has a globular or dendritic shape. The average hardness of the hard phase particle contained in the cylinder liner is more than 1000 HV. Each piston ring consists of a ring-shaped base body made of the cast iron having lamellar graphite or vermicular graphite, and further comprises an outer coating made from the chrome ceramic. The chrome ceramic-layer of the piston rings is a chromium layer with embedded ceramic-particles.