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German Archives MCP

An MCP server that allows agents to search German archive finding aids via the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and Archivportal-D, and access civil and church registers from state archives in Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Hesse for genealogical research.

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German Archives MCP logo, by iandersoCommunity listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by ianderso
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What you can do with it

  • Search Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek finding aids
  • Read specific archive entry details and fonds information
  • Access civil registers from Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg
  • Download pages of digitized vital registers

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.3.0
mcp-registry: io.github.ianderso/german-archives-mcp@0.3.0Source repository
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german-archives-mcp 0.3.0

pypiuvx
german-archives-mcp package definition
{
  "version": "0.3.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "german-archives-mcp",
  "runtimeHint": "uvx",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR",
      "default": "~/.cache/german-archives-mcp",
      "description": "Directory for the on-disk response cache, and for the APERTUS volume PDFs kept for reading further pages."
    },
    {
      "name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT",
      "default": "30",
      "description": "HTTP timeout in seconds for one request. Image downloads get 120 s to read."
    },
    {
      "name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL",
      "default": "2",
      "description": "Least seconds between two requests to one host. Never below 2; database searches and APERTUS volume downloads wait 10."
    },
    {
      "name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT",
      "description": "An email address or URL appended to the User-Agent, so an archive can reach whoever runs the server."
    },
    {
      "name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
      "description": "An existing folder. When set, the image tools save only inside it; needed to save under ~/Library, such as an iCloud Drive folder."
    },
    {
      "name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS",
      "default": "3",
      "description": "Days a downloaded APERTUS volume PDF is kept for reading further pages (at most 30)."
    },
    {
      "name": "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB",
      "default": "1000",
      "description": "Most megabytes of APERTUS volume PDFs kept on disk; the least recently read go first (at least 100)."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "german-archives-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "german-archives-mcp==0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "german-archives-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "german-archives-mcp==0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "german-archives-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "german-archives-mcp==0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "german-archives-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "german-archives-mcp==0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS>",
        "GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB": "<YOUR_GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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