Municipality

Look up a German municipality by name, PLZ, or AGS

Resolves a municipality profile (AGS, name, Bundesland, population, PLZ) from a municipality name, a 5-digit PLZ, or an Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel (AGS). Offline lookup against Destatis Gemeindegrenzen 2022 (GV100, 10,990 municipalities) — no external API call. found:true with population:null means the name/PLZ resolved but there was no Destatis GV100 match (name+state known only).

get/api/municipality/lookup

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.cernion.de
  • URL: https://api.cernion.de/api/municipality/lookup
  • Auth: none declared

Query parameters

municipalitystring
Example:Hockenheim

Municipality name or 5-digit PLZ.

agsstring
Example:08226032

Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel, takes priority over municipality.

tokenstring

Optional Cernion MCP token as URL query parameter. If provided, it overrides CERNION_TOKEN for this request. Prefer Authorization Bearer header in production to reduce token exposure in URLs/logs.

Response

Municipality profile (found:false if unresolved)

foundboolean
namestring nullable
agsstring nullable
statestring nullable
postalCodestring nullable
populationinteger nullable
areaSqKmnumber nullable
sourceStatusstring

Changes

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