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Open Legal Data (Germany)

MCP serverVerified domain · openlegaldata.ioRemote● LiveFree to try

German court decisions (Rechtsprechung) and laws (Gesetze) with citation graph and citation checks.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to de.openlegaldata.io. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http open-legal-data-germany https://de.openlegaldata.io/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • 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 infor
  • 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
  • filter_cases — Structured filtering of court cases using the database. Unlike search_cases (which uses full-text search), this tool filters cases using exa
  • 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
  • get_case_statistics — Get aggregated case statistics. Returns case counts grouped by time period, optionally filtered by court, state, or jurisdiction. Without ``
  • 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 r
  • search_cases — Full-text search for German court cases via Elasticsearch. Returns matching cases (with ``file_number``) and highlighted snippets. Does NOT
  • 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(b
  • 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 w
  • search_laws — Full-text search across law sections via Elasticsearch. Returns matching law sections with highlighted snippets. Does NOT return full text -
  • 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
  • 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 understand
  • 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 underst
  • validate_citation — Check if a legal citation exists in the OLDP database. Validates Aktenzeichen (file numbers), ECLI identifiers, or paragraph references (e.g
  • 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 t
  • 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, la
  • 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
  • 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 lea

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