fyndling-mcp

Built for medieval market fans, reenactors, and living-history enthusiasts — and the AI assistants that help them plan. Fyndling MCP gives AI clients direct access to two niche European datasets:

• Medieval events — query 3,700+ markets, concerts, castle experiences, living-history events, and renaissance faires across 25+ countries in Europe and North America, by location + radius + date range (updated weekly)

• Permanent POIs — 1,900+ meaderies, mead producers, castles, and medieval restaurants, also searchable by geo-radius

• Historical recipes — over 2,000 recipes from twenty-four cookbooks spanning the 13th–16th century, with modern German adaptations, structured ingredient lists, original manuscript transcripts, and a controlled tag vocabulary for dish-type, diet, and social-class filtering

→ fyndling.de — the web app behind this data

Endpoint: https://fyndling.de/mcp
Transport: Streamable HTTP (MCP spec 2025-03-26)
Auth: none
Rate limit: 60 requests / minute

Quickstart

Add to your MCP client config (e.g. Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fyndling": {
      "url": "https://fyndling.de/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Related MCP server: LiveDataLink

Tools

Events & Locations

find_events_near

Find medieval events near a geographic coordinate, sorted by distance.

Example — markets within 80 km of Vienna this summer:

{
  "lat": 48.2082, "lon": 16.3738,
  "radius_km": 80,
  "date_from": "2026-06-01", "date_to": "2026-08-31",
  "types": ["market"]
}

Response fields: id, name, date_from, date_to, city, country, lat, lon, distance_km, category, description, fyndling_url

list_events

List events filtered by category, country, and/or date range.

get_event

Get full details for a single event by ID.

find_pois_near

Find permanent medieval-themed locations (meaderies, castles, restaurants).

Historical Recipes

list_recipe_sources

List all available cookbooks with metadata (year, language, region, recipe count) and the full course taxonomy (atomic values + aliases).

No parameters.

Sources (24 active cookbooks, ordered by date):

The Recipes column above is the number of recipes currently available from each source. Note that the recipe_count field returned by list_recipe_sources reflects each manuscript's full recipe count (its total editorial scope) — for sources still being ingested, that figure can be higher than what search_recipes returns today. The corpus is reviewed and published source-by-source, so all counts grow over time.

list_recipe_tags

List the controlled tag vocabulary, grouped by category (dish_type, diet, social_class), with labels, descriptions and current recipe counts. Use these tag IDs as values for the tags parameter in search_recipes and compose_menu.

No parameters.

Tag groups:

Tag IDs are German (kebab-style). Pass them verbatim to search_recipes(tags=[...]). Multiple tags combine with AND logic — tags=["hofkueche", "vegetarisch"] returns only vegetarian dishes that are also tagged as courtly cuisine. Social-class tags can co-occur on a single recipe when a source explicitly addresses multiple classes (classic Bockenheim pattern: "et erit bonum pro ciuibus Rusticis et nobilibus" → both bauernkueche and hofkueche).

The dietary filter in search_recipes is a convenience alias: dietary="vegetarian" is equivalent to tags=["vegetarisch"], and dietary="vegan" to tags=["vegan"]. Note that vegan recipes also carry the vegetarisch tag, so dietary="vegetarian" returns both groups.

search_recipes

Search historical recipes with filtering and ingredient matching.

Course types:

Example — desserts with cinnamon and ginger:

{
  "course": "dessert",
  "ingredients": ["Zimt", "Ingwer"],
  "limit": 5
}

Example — easy camp-cooking poultry dishes from before 1450:

{
  "course": "main_poultry",
  "difficulty_max": 1,
  "lagerkueche": true,
  "epoch_to": 1450
}

Example — all recipes from the oldest source (13th-century Denmark):

{
  "source_key": "harpestreng",
  "limit": 25
}

Example — Flemish court cuisine from the late 15th century:

{
  "source_key": "edelike_spijse",
  "course": "main_poultry",
  "limit": 10
}

Example — the Regensburg manuscript (Cgm 5919, ~1500):

{
  "source_key": "muenchner_cgm5919",
  "limit": 20
}

Example — vegan desserts (lent-friendly sweets, no animal products):

{
  "course": "dessert",
  "dietary": "vegan",
  "limit": 10
}

Example — courtly bread-based dishes (banquet-grade Backwerk):

{
  "tags": ["hofkueche", "brot"],
  "limit": 10
}

Example — peasant-class lent food (rural fast-day dishes):

{
  "tags": ["bauernkueche", "fastenspeise"],
  "limit": 20
}

Recipe list fields (full details stripped for list performance): id, source_key, title_modern, course, difficulty, serves, prep_time_min, ingredients, lagerküche, published_at, fyndling_url (canonical link to the recipe page on fyndling.de)

get_recipe

Get the full details of a single recipe.

Full response includes:

• text_modern — modern German adaptation of the recipe

• ingredients — structured list with amount, unit, name, original_text, original (medieval source text)

• transcript — original medieval text with language and source

• annotations — glossary of archaic terms

• faq — common questions answered

• interpretive_choices — editorial decisions on ambiguous passages

• scan — link to manuscript scan image

• fyndling_url — canonical link to the recipe page on fyndling.de (e.g. https://fyndling.de/rezepte/mar-005/)

Ingredient units: g, kg, ml, l, TL (Teelöffel/teaspoon), EL (Esslöffel/tablespoon), tsp, tbsp, pinch, piece, slice, clove, bunch, sprig, leaf, cm. Use original_text for display; amount + unit are for scaling only.

Example ingredient object:

{
  "original": "ein phunt mandels",
  "amount": 500,
  "unit": "g",
  "name": "Mandeln",
  "original_text": "500 g Mandeln"
}

compose_menu

Compose a multi-course menu from historical recipes. Automatically minimises ingredient overlap between courses.

Example — 4-course dinner for 8, 14th-century only:

{
  "courses": ["starter", "main_fish", "main_poultry", "dessert"],
  "persons": 8,
  "epoch_from": 1300,
  "epoch_to": 1400
}

Example — vegetarian 3-course menu for 6:

{
  "courses": ["starter", "main_vegetarian", "dessert"],
  "persons": 6,
  "dietary": "vegetarian"
}

Example — courtly banquet (5-course Hofküche dinner for 12):

{
  "courses": ["starter", "main_fish", "main_poultry", "main_game", "dessert"],
  "persons": 12,
  "tags": ["hofkueche"]
}

Coverage

Events: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, and more — plus renaissance faires in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and beyond.

Recipes: Twenty-two cookbooks spanning Old Danish, Old French, Middle High German, Middle English, Tuscan Volgare, Medieval Latin, Middle Dutch, Early New High German (Bavarian, Alemannic–Swabian, Rhine-Franconian), Early Italian, and Early Czech — from Copenhagen, Paris, London, Würzburg, Florence, the papal court at Rome, Ghent, the Upper Rhine, northern Italy, Prague, Frankfurt-am-Main, and a dense cluster of South-German manuscripts: Munich (BSB Cgm 384, 467, 725, 811, 5919, Cgm 349, Clm 15632), Tegernsee, Rott am Inn, Dietramszell, Regensburg, and the Teutonic-Order Königsberg fragment. Covering the 13th to 16th century.

Notable sources: The Harpestreng manuscript (NKS 66, ~1300) is the earliest surviving cookbook from northern Europe. Le Viandier de Taillevent (~1300) is one of the most influential French court cookbooks of the Middle Ages. The Registrum Coquine of Johannes von Bockenheim (~1433, BnF Ms. Latin 7054) is a Latin compilation from the papal court of Martin V that explicitly labels recipes by social class — "pro magnatibus", "pro communibus", "pro rusticis". The Ghent manuscript (BHSL.HS.1035, ~1475) is the only fully preserved Middle Dutch recipe collection of its era. The Tegernseer Speisenbuch (BSB Cgm 8137, 1453–1534) documents Benedictine monastery cuisine from Bavaria and contains the oldest known written record of the name Rutschart (today's Ritschert). The South-German manuscript cluster (Munich/Regensburg/Tegernsee) makes Fyndling one of the largest structured digital corpora of 15th–16th-century German cookbook recipes.

License & Attribution

Event data is aggregated from public sources; accuracy is not guaranteed — always verify with the organiser.

Recipe texts and modern adaptations: © Fyndling, CC BY-SA 4.0. Original medieval texts are in the public domain.