A transmitter housing for connecting a water level transmitter to a lye runoff bellows in a washing machine, the transmitter housing having an elongated and cylindrical shape and being connected at a basal end face thereof to a corresponding nozzle of a lye runoff bellows of a tub of the washing machine and being connected by the other basal end face thereof to the water level transmitter, includes a transmitter housing body having one of a jet molded and an injection molded generally hollow-cylindrical shape and includes devices for fastening the transmitter housing body to the nozzle of the lye runoff bellows, and devices for connecting the transmitter housing body to a body of the tub.