sentences:  In the early 1890s, the German Navy attempted to secure funding from the "Reichstag" to replace the elderly ironclad , but parliamentary resistance delayed the appropriation until the 1894/1895 budget year.Design studies for the new ship had begun in June 1891 at the request of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and it was quickly decided to make significant changes from the preceding design.The limitations of the fleet's infrastructure, particularly the dry docks and other harbor facilities, along with the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal then under construction, constrained the size of the new ship.