Artfully designed wooden doors painted with colorful oil paint are a widely recognized landmark of the popular holiday region of Fischland-Darss-Zingst. However, the doors would be nothing without the houses they adorn and serve as entrances and exits. It is the residents and the stories they can tell that make the doors in Fischland, Darss, and Zingst so distinctive. Susanne Menning and Dorit Gätjen recount how the revival of the traditional doors spread throughout the region starting in 1931 and where the most beautiful examples can be found in the towns of Wustrow, Niehagen, Althagen, Ahrenshoop, Born, Wieck, Prerow, and Zingst.