GOV Historical Gazetteer MCP Server

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GOV Historical Gazetteer runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 263 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 11 Oct 2026.

German historical gazetteer GOV: a place's name, Kreis, parish and Standesamt in any year.

Installs per day peak 263 · avg 8

a month agotoday

263

Installs / week

pypi · gov-gazetteer-mcp

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11 Oct 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

MIT

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check GOV Historical Gazetteer every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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 Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add gov-gazetteer-mcp -- uvx gov-gazetteer-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gov-gazetteer-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "gov-gazetteer-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.gov-gazetteer-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["gov-gazetteer-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gov-gazetteer-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "gov-gazetteer-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gov-gazetteer-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "gov-gazetteer-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: GOV_GAZETTEER_CACHE_DIR (Directory for the on-disk response cache.), GOV_GAZETTEER_TIMEOUT (HTTP timeout in seconds for one request.), GOV_GAZETTEER_MIN_INTERVAL (Least seconds between two requests to GOV. Never below 1.), GOV_GAZETTEER_CONTACT (An email address or URL appended to the User-Agent, so CompGen can reach whoever runs the server.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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GOV Historical Gazetteer — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for GOV Historical Gazetteer?

GOV Historical Gazetteer runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package gov-gazetteer-mcp was installed 263 times last week.

How do I connect GOV Historical Gazetteer?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls gov-gazetteer-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use GOV Historical Gazetteer?

The pypi package gov-gazetteer-mcp was installed 263 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is GOV Historical Gazetteer open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.