PURPOSE: To provide a device, which can very efficiently remove condensate from a steam-heated drying cylinder for a paper-making machine.

CONSTITUTION: This device includes a condensate suction pipe 7 rotating with the drying cylinder and extending from the area of the axis of rotation of the drying cylinder toward the inside surface of the cylinder shell 1, and having there a suction opening for the intake of condensate mixed with steam. A steam blowing line 19 originating from the cylinder interior empties in the area of the suction opening into the interior of the condensate suction pipe 7. This steam blowing line 19 is fashioned as an annular channel 19 defined by the radially outer (relative to the cylinder axis) area of the condensate suction pipe 7 and by an outside pipe surrounding the condensate suction pipe 7.