''Küstenwache'' is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of the Federal Coast Guard, off the German coast of the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...

. It aired on

ZDF ZDF (), short for (; ), is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Launched on 1 April 1963, it is run as an independent nonprofit institution, and was founded by all federal states of Germany ( ...

for seventeen seasons from 1997 to 2016.

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* German crime television series 1997 German television series debuts 2000s German television series 2010s German television series Nautical television series ZDF original programming German-language television shows {{Germany-crime-tv-prog-stub