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

German Archives (DDB; BW, NRW, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse registers) is an MCP integration. German archive finding aids (DDB); civil and church registers of BW, NRW, RLP and Hesse.

Packages and local setup

The published pypi package is german-archives-mcp, version 0.3.0. Its declared MCP transport is stdio.

The package declares 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)..

Before connecting

Check the maintainer’s instructions for account access, authentication and the supported client configuration. Once connected, inspect the tools your client receives and try a small task that matches the server’s stated purpose. The registry description does not include a verified, complete tool list.

Project and source

View the publisher’s registry entry · Project repository. This profile uses version 0.3.0 from the registry. Registration identifies the publisher namespace; it does not establish that this is a first-party integration for every service it connects.

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