{{Infobox settlement | name = Uhyst | native_name = Delni Wujězd | native_name_lang = hsb | image_skyline = Delni Wujězd – Nowy hród.jpg | image_caption = Palace | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Germany | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = Saxony | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Görlitz | coordinates = {{Coord|51|21|55|N|14|30|24|E|display=it|region:DE_type:city(1141)}} | pushpin_map = Germany | timezone = CET | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = CEST | utc_offset_DST = +2 }} '''Uhyst''' (Upper Sorbian '''Delni Wujězd''') was a municipality in the district Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis, Saxony, Germany. Since 2007, it is part of Boxberg.
It is located in Lusatia, and is officially bilingual (German and Upper Sorbian), as it is inhabited by the indigenous Sorbs.
==History== A Catholic chapel was built by 1342.<ref name=sgk/> As of 1885, the village had a population of 451, and there was a Sorbian Lutheran school.<ref name=sgk>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XII|year=1892|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=764}}</ref>
Uhyst was renamed ''Spreefurt'' during the Nazi era, and regained its original name in 1947.<ref>{{cite book |last=von Vietinghoff-Riesch |first=Arnold |date=2004 |title=Der Oberlausitzer Wald: Seine Geschichte und seine Struktur bis 1945; mit 22 Tafeln sowie 33 Tabellen |trans-title=The Upper Lusatian Forest: Its history and structure up to 1945; with 22 tables and 33 tables |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OyIeAQAAIAAJ |publisher=Oberlausitzer Verlag |page=60 |isbn=9783933827463}}</ref>
The forester and poet Gottfried Unterdörfer lived and worked here from 1950 until his death in 1990.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{commonscat-inline|Uhyst/Delni Wujězd}} * [https://www.scribd.com/doc/14333833/unterdoerfer On the traces of Gottfried Unterdörfer] at Scribd
{{Authority control}} Category:Former municipalities in Saxony Category:Boxberg, Saxony
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