SMS "Wörth" ("His Majesty's Ship Wörth") was one of four German pre-dreadnought battleships of the , built in the early 1890s. The class also included , , and . The ships were the first ocean-going battleships built for the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). "Wörth" was laid down at the Germaniawerft dockyard in Kiel in May 1890. The ship was launched on 6 August 1892 and commissioned into the fleet on 31 October 1893. "Wörth" and her three sisters carried six heavy guns rather than four, as was standard for most other navies' battleships. She was named for the Battle of Wörth fought during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871.