Cambs

This article is about the municipality of Germany. For the English county for which "Cambs" is an abbreviation, see Cambridgeshire.

Cambs
Coat of arms of Cambs Coat of arms
Cambs
Location of Cambs within Ludwigslust-Parchim district 250px
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
District	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Municipal assoc.	Crivitz
Government
• Mayor	Günter Oepke
Area
• Total	20.82 km2 (8.04 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	618
• Density	30/km2 (77/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	19067
Dialling codes	03866
Vehicle registration	PCH
Website	www.amt-ostufer-schweriner-see.de/

Cambs is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Geography

Cambs is located 11 km north east of Schwerin within a large ground moraine area rich of lakes between the Schweriner See and the upper Warnow. There are three lakes on the municipal area: the s shaped 4 kilometres long Cambser See (lake of Cambs), the Weiße See (white lake) and the Schwarze See (black lake).

Beside the name-giving village Cambs there are four more villages within the municipality Cambs: Ahrensboek, Brahlstorf, Karnin and Kleefeld.

History

For several centuries the village of Cambs was an important post station at the postal line Schwerin-Güstrow. Cambs is mentioned documentarily first in 1341.

Infrastructure

Fire brigade

Like most villages around Schwerin Cambs got an auxiliary fire brigade.

Health

Even though Cambs got its local medical practitioner next hospital isn't very far away. Next hospital sites are the specialized rehab hospital in Leezen and the full-fledged hospital 'Helios-Kliniken' in Schwerin.

Transportation

Cambs is situated close to the newly built parts of the Bundesautobahn 14. The Bundesstraße B 104 goes through Cambs. The parts of this German federal highway close to Cambs are known accident hotspot. For this reason Cambs is a hotspot for traffic supervision by speed cameras as well.

The next train station is located in Schwerin.

Public transport bus service is available. Bus lines connect Cambs with Schwerin, Crivitz, Sternberg and a lot of smaller villages.

Local Law

The municipality of Cambs taxes second residence and dog ownership.

Points of interest

• church of Cambs built in 1856

• Schule Cambs Panorama.jpg

  schools of Cambs (Hauptschule and Realschule)

• Feuerwehr Cambs 20090410.jpg

  fire station and fire truck of the auxiliary fire brigade of Cambs

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  fire station of the auxiliary fire brigade Cambs

• Cambs Rettungswache.JPG

  emergency medical services station Cambs

• Dorfkirche Cambs 20090410.JPG

  church of Cambs

External links

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