Txoritokieta Fort is a fortification built on the hill of the same denomination, located between the municipalities of San Sebastián and Astigarraga (Guipúzcoa, Spain). Designed by the military engineer Luis Nieva, it was inaugurated in 1890, forming part initially of the Entrenched Field of Oyarzun and later of the Barrier Position of Oyarzun. Txoritokieta fortress (from the 19th century).

Belongs to the strong polygonal typology, having two batteries with a barbeque with two settlements for pieces of artillery each and a third battery, also a barbete, with three settlements. The batteries are separated by several crosspieces that form an approximately cruciform body under which is the body of guard, ammunition stores, room of load and coats for the personnel. To its side it has a quarter of pentagonal plant endowed with a central patio, under which is the cistern. Part of the facade of the main floor forms the escarpment of the moat, being aspillerada. The cover is flat, forming a parapet for the fusillade that surrounds the whole building. The barracks is depressed in relation to the rest of the fort. The set described is surrounded by a pit that forms an irregular polygon of nine sides, defended, partly, by the loopholes of the barracks and by a unique battery of flanqueo of fusilería. The main entrance had a drawbridge drawbridge, currently missing. The garrison assigned to the fort was 60 troops, being initially armed with 6 Enchanted Iron Cannons "Ordonez" of 15 cm, mod. 1885, on high frame. This first artillery was replaced in the year 1896 by 4 guns of bronze of 12 cm and 2 bronzes of 15 cm, for which it was necessary to modify the parapets. Nevertheless, it was disarranged to the few years, being the fort almost without use and dependent of the near fort of San Marcos. The fort was acquired by the City Council of Renteria, along with the one of San Marcos, in 1992, remaining at the moment semiabandonado but in acceptable state.

In the vicinity of the fort was built an auxiliary battery formed by a parapet under a barbeque for field artillery, equipped with trench coats, as well as a guard body and ammunition tank, shielded with concrete vaults and covered with earth, inside that it keeps a deposit of gunpowder and another of projectiles.

Bibliography

The fort of Txoritokieta (Guipúzcoa) / Juan Antonio Sáez García. Castles of Spain n. 142-143 (2006), p. 3-14.

Old stones: Gipuzkoan fortifications / Juan Antonio Saez Garcia. - San Sebastián: Michelena, 2000.

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