Within the scope of this work, the objective was to transfer the stress situations resulting at the exterior wall-floor joint as partial area loads to wall test specimens. The actual load-bearing capacities of highly thermally insulating plane clay unit masonry are to be quantified and compared with the calculated load-bearing capacities based on the unconfined stress-strain relationship and the linear-elastic, quasi-ductile and rigid-plastic material behaviour. In order to record also the deformations and compression at cross-section level directly in the load application area as well as the curvatures at system level, the deformations of all test specimens are documented by means of optical deformation measurement (digital image correlation). In this way, not only the load-bearing capacity but also, in particular, the stress resp. Strain distribution and stress redistributions as well as the experimental moment-curvature relationship can be quantified for the further analytical considerations and evaluations. Accordingly, it can be determined for all eccentric partial area loads that, regardless of the loading situation, higher load bearing capacities are achieved both compared to the calculated bearing capacity and based on a rigid-plastic material behaviour. Especially in the case of the loading situation at the bottom of the walls with partially supported floors, the activation of the unloaded cross-sectional zone at the load transfer can be shown very well based on the photogrammetrically determined cross-sectional compression. The decoupling initiated by the local discontinuity of the stress-strain state occurs only after the rigid-plastic cross-sectional bearing capacity is reached.