Open Legal Data (Germany)

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• Connection: Runs in the cloud
• Transport: Streamable HTTP
• Category: Law & government data

Install

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Passed 5/5 checks · What you ask goes through the maker’s server (de.openlegaldata.io)

claude mcp add --transport http de https://de.openlegaldata.io/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "de": {
      "url": "https://de.openlegaldata.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "de": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://de.openlegaldata.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Which apps can use it

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What it can do

Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 11, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

• get_server_instructions

  Return MCP server instructions (if any). Always call first.

• get_court

  Get detailed information about a specific court. Look up a court by ID, slug, or code. Returns full details including address, contact information, and case count. Args: court_id: Court database ID. slug: Court slug (e.g. "ag-berlin-charlottenburg"). code: Court ECLI code (e.g. "

• list_courts

  Browse and filter German courts. Returns a list of courts matching the given filters. Use this to discover which courts are available before searching for cases. Args: court_type: Filter by court type code (e.g. "AG", "LG", "OLG", "BGH", "VG", "OVG", "BVerwG", "ArbG", "LAG", "BAG

• filter_cases

  Structured filtering of court cases using the database. Unlike search_cases (which uses full-text search), this tool filters cases using exact database fields. Returns case metadata without full content. Args: court_id: Filter by court database ID. court_slug: Filter by court slu

• get_case

  Retrieve a court case by ID or slug. By default returns the case metadata and the complete, untruncated ``content`` as plain text (HTML tags removed, entities decoded, whitespace normalized; one line per paragraph, Randnummern as line prefix). To read a long decision piece by pie

• get_case_statistics

  Get aggregated case statistics. Returns case counts grouped by time period, optionally filtered by court, state, or jurisdiction. Args: court_id: Filter by court ID. state: Filter by state name or slug. jurisdiction: Filter by jurisdiction. Accepts the English shortcuts ("ordinar

• get_similar_cases

  Find court cases textually similar to a given case. Seeds an Elasticsearch "more like this" query with the full text of the given case and returns the most similar OTHER cases, ranked by similarity. Useful for comparative research: once you have one on-point decision, surface nei

• search_cases

  Full-text search for German court cases via Elasticsearch. Returns matching cases with highlighted snippets. Does NOT return full case text - use get_case to retrieve complete content. The citation filters compose with ``query`` so you can answer "cases citing § 823 BGB that ment

• get_law_section

  Get the full text of a specific law section. Retrieve law text by book code and section number, or by law ID. For example, get_law_section(book_code="BGB", section="823") returns the text of section 823 of the German Civil Code. By default the complete, untruncated ``content`` is

• list_law_books

  List available German law books (e.g. BGB, StGB, GG). Returns law books with their codes, titles, and section counts. Use this to discover what legislation is available before searching for specific law sections. Args: latest_only: Only show latest revisions (default True). searc

• search_laws

  Full-text search across law sections via Elasticsearch. Returns matching law sections with highlighted snippets. Does NOT return full text - use get_law_section to retrieve the complete content of a specific section. Args: query: Search query text (supports Lucene syntax). book_c

• get_case_references

  Get forward references FROM a case (what this case cites). Returns all laws and cases that the given case references in its text. Useful for understanding the legal basis of a decision. Args: case_id: The database ID of the case.

• get_cases_for_law

  Find all cases that cite a specific law section. Returns cases that reference the given statute section in their text. Useful for understanding how courts interpret a specific provision. To narrow the citing set by keyword, court, or date, use ``search_cases(query=..., cited_law_

• get_citing_cases

  Get reverse references TO a case (cases that cite this case). Find all cases that reference the given case in their text. Useful for understanding the impact and precedent value of a decision. To narrow the citing set by keyword, court, or date, use ``search_cases(query=..., cite

• validate_citation

  Check if a legal citation exists in the OLDP database. Validates Aktenzeichen (file numbers), ECLI identifiers, or paragraph references (e.g. "§ 823 BGB"). Use this to verify citations before presenting them to users. Args: citation: The citation to validate (e.g. "VI ZR 123/22",

• submit_feedback

  Send feedback about OLDP or this MCP server to the OLDP team. Use this to report bugs (wrong results, errors, broken tools), problems with the legal data (missing or wrong decisions, laws or references), or to request features. Only submit feedback the user wants to send or has a

• get_platform_info

  Get OLDP platform coverage summary. Returns an overview of the data available on the Open Legal Data Platform, including counts of cases, laws, courts, and references. Call this first to understand what data you can search and retrieve.

• search_legal

  Search BOTH legislation and court cases in one call. Returns the most relevant law sections AND court decisions for the query, **grouped by type**. Use this when a legal question may be answered by statute or by case law and you don't yet know which — e.g. "Eigenbedarf" surfaces

• whoami

  Show who you are connected as and your remaining request budget. Call this before a long task to check how many requests are left, or to learn how to get a larger budget. Every HTTP request to the MCP server counts against the budget, including this call; once nothing is left, re

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 11, 2026

• ✓ Pass

  Maker matches the repo

  The registry name was verified against the domain openlegaldata.io (the registry checks domain ownership)

• ✓ Pass

  Still maintained

  Code last changed today

• ✓ Pass

  Has a licence

  Uses MIT

• ✓ Pass

  Endpoint responds

  Responded in 691 ms (HTTP 200)

• – Not applicable

  Sign-in with OAuth

  No sign-in needed

• ✓ Pass

  No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

  Read 19 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI

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• Published to the registry more recently than 99% of the other 1803 servers in this category
• Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 1803 servers in this category

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