Därstetten is a municipality in the Frutigen -Niedersimmental administrative district in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland .

Därstetten is first mentioned in 1228 as Tarenchat. The village of Weissenburg was first mentioned around 1270 as Wisinburc and in 1278 as Album-castrum.

The oldest trace of a settlement in the area is a single Neolithic artifact found at Stufengrind. During the Middle Ages the land was owned by the Freiherr von Weissenburg, who was first mentioned in 1175. Around the third quarter of the 12th century he donated land along the Simmen river to the Augustinian order for a monastery.