An apparatus used to transfer at least one palletisable layer onto a depositing area and/or stacking area, which can be formed, in particular, by a pallet, the apparatus comprising at least: - a staging position for at least one palletisable layer, which is formed by a plurality of piece goods arranged within a defined space, - a loading station, which comprises a first loading unit and a second loading unit, wherein the first loading unit is designed to accommodate a complete palletisable layer, - wherein the palletisable layer accommodated on the first loading unit is partly transferable and/or movable from the first loading unit onto the second loading unit such that the palletisable layer completely accommodated by the first loading unit partly passes onto the second loading unit and is carried by the first loading unit and the second loading unit together, - wherein the first loading unit and the second loading unit are distanceable from each other for the purpose of the complete palletisable layer to be put down on the depositing area and/or stacking area and/or on a top side of an already palletised layer previously deposited there, wherein the thereby formable minimum distance between the first loading unit and the second loading unit corresponds to at least a width of the palletisable layer previously located thereon, - wherein the first loading unit and the second loading unit have movable contact bars for the stabilisation and/or transfer of the layer assigned to them, - and wherein the contact bars engaging on both sides with the layer, which is to be deposited and/or which is deposited, are movable at least in phases non-synchronously and/or independently of one another, in particular, in directions of movement parallel to the transport direction (ÜR) of the transfer movement of the layer onto the first loading unit, characterised in that the contact bars or the layer slider and the layer stop, as applicable, are each suspended from and mounted on a vertically movable crosspiece, from which the first loading unit and the second loading unit are also suspended, wherein the first loading unit, the second loading unit, and the contact bars (30, 35) are arranged on one side of the crosspiece. - a staging position for at least one palletisable layer, which is formed by a plurality of piece goods arranged within a defined space, - a loading station, which comprises a first loading unit and a second loading unit, wherein the first loading unit is designed to accommodate a complete palletisable layer, - wherein the palletisable layer accommodated on the first loading unit is partly transferable and/or movable from the first loading unit onto the second loading unit such that the palletisable layer completely accommodated by the first loading unit partly passes onto the second loading unit and is carried by the first loading unit and the second loading unit together, - wherein the first loading unit and the second loading unit are distanceable from each other for the purpose of the complete palletisable layer to be put down on the depositing area and/or stacking area and/or on a top side of an already palletised layer previously deposited there, wherein the thereby formable minimum distance between the first loading unit and the second loading unit corresponds to at least a width of the palletisable layer previously located thereon, - wherein the first loading unit and the second loading unit have movable contact bars for the stabilisation and/or transfer of the layer assigned to them, - and wherein the contact bars engaging on both sides with the layer, which is to be deposited and/or which is deposited, are movable at least in phases non-synchronously and/or independently of one another, in particular, in directions of movement parallel to the transport direction (ÜR) of the transfer movement of the layer onto the first loading unit, characterised in that the contact bars or the layer slider and the layer stop, as applicable, are each suspended from and mounted on a vertically movable crosspiece, from which the first loading unit and the second loading unit are also suspended, wherein the first loading unit, the second loading unit, and the contact bars (30, 35) are arranged on one side of the crosspiece.