German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) MCP Server

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

claude mcp add german-archives-mcp -- uvx german-archives-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "german-archives-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "german-archives-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.german-archives-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["german-archives-mcp"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "german-archives-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "german-archives-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "german-archives-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "german-archives-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR (Directory for the on-disk response cache, and for the APERTUS volume PDFs kept for reading further pages.), GERMAN_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT (HTTP timeout in seconds for one request. Image downloads get 120 s to read.), GERMAN_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL (Least seconds between two requests to one host. Never below 2; database searches and APERTUS volume downloads wait 10.), GERMAN_ARCHIVES_CONTACT (An email address or URL appended to the User-Agent, so an archive can reach whoever runs the server.), GERMAN_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR (An existing folder. When set, the image tools save only inside it; needed to save under ~/Library, such as an iCloud Drive folder.), GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_DAYS (Days a downloaded APERTUS volume PDF is kept for reading further pages (at most 30).), GERMAN_ARCHIVES_PDF_CACHE_MB (Most megabytes of APERTUS volume PDFs kept on disk; the least recently read go first (at least 100).). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.