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

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German archive finding aids (DDB); civil and church registers of BW, NRW, RLP and Hesse.

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German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) tools (11)

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  • cache_status

    Report this session's requests, by host, and cache use. Makes no network call.

  • ddb_item

    Read one DDB entry: its full description, its place in the fonds, and any image links.

  • ddb_search

    Search the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek: archives' finding aids and digitised objects.

  • hessen_image

    Download one page image of a Hessian register from Arcinsys Hessen, so it can be read.

  • hessen_search

    Find the digitised civil registers of a Hesse place: the Hessisches Landesarchiv's.

  • labw_image

    Download one page image of a Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg item, so it can be read.

  • labw_standesbuch

    Find the online vital registers of a Baden-Württemberg place at the Landesarchiv.

  • nrw_image

    Download one page image of a Landesarchiv NRW register, so it can be read.

  • nrw_search

    Search the Archive in NRW portal, above all for the Landesarchiv NRW's civil registers.

  • rlp_image

    Download one page of an APERTUS register (Rheinland-Pfalz), so it can be read.

  • rlp_search

    Find the digitised civil registers of a Rhineland-Palatinate place in APERTUS.

Public scan report

scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-13 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

no findings
  • Code scan13 source files scanned25/25
  • –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
  • –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
  • Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
  • Maintenancelast push 2 days ago15/15
  • Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Overall 92/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON

How German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) compares

Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score
92/100
higher than 95% of 48,255 servers
Tools
11
the typical server has 7
Tools that change things
0%
typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
Downloads a week
275
more than 80% of 12,191 servers with a package

What its tools let an agent do: 11 read

Install German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

claude mcp add german-archives-mcp -- uvx german-archives-mcp
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What the publisher says

From the German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

german-archives-mcp

<!-- mcp-name: io.github.ianderso/german-archives-mcp -->

An MCP server for German archives' finding aids and the vital registers German state archives have put online: search what German archives, libraries and museums have described in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and its archive portal Archivportal-D, read one entry with its place in the archive's fonds, find the civil or church register of a place for a year at the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, the Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, the Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz or the Hessisches Landesarchiv, and download a page of it to read.

The DDB is Germany's counterpart of DPLA, and for archives its counterpart of ArchiveGrid as well: archives deliver their finding aids to it, item by item, with signatures (call numbers), dates and the fonds each item belongs to. Some deliver images. Its version 2 API answers without a key.

The server covers every fonds of vital registers the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg has online (the Staatsarchiv Wertheim's civil-register duplicates, from 1870, are not yet in its online finding aids):

The Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen has put its civil registers (Zivilstands- and Personenstandsregister) online: the Rhineland's from 1798, and Westphalia's and Lippe's with some of their church-book duplicates, as far as the protection periods allow (births 110 years, marriages 80, deaths 30). The server searches them through the Archive in NRW portal and reads their pages from the Landesarchiv's image server.

The Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz's Personenstandsarchiv, part of the Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, has put the civil registers of the state's north online in its virtual reading room APERTUS: Best. 657,001 onward, one fonds per Standesamt or Bürgermeisterei, mostly the former government districts of Koblenz and Trier, from 1798. About 59,000 birth, marriage and death registers have images there: by the archive's count (March 2026) some 32,000 whole registers, digitised district by district up to 1880 or 1895, and 28,000 registers of which only the name index is digitised. APERTUS delivers a register only as one PDF of the whole volume, so the server downloads a volume once, keeps it on disk for a few days, and takes each page asked for out of it.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.

German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers): common questions

Is German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) MCP server safe?
Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (92/100). Read the German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) safety report
How do I install German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers)?
It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
Does German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) need an API key?
No secret keys are declared. It reads 7 settings from the environment.
Is German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) maintained?
The last commit was 24 days ago (2026-10-11). The latest release is v0.3.0.
How does German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) compare with other MCP servers?
safety score 92/100 (higher than 95% of 48,255 servers); tools 11 (the typical server has 7); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.

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