The degraded oceanic climate bears witness to the continental influence; the village therefore benefits from temperatures that can be high in summer and harsh in winter.

The first traces of human habitation found in Pierrevillers are well out of the area that today constitutes the town, since they are situated at the highest point of the forest, on the edge of the territory of the commune of Rombas, at the place called Château de Drince.

The commune has a probable Gallo-Roman origin, a charter of the year 960 mentions it under the name of Petraevillare, which means villa (agricultural domain) built on stone.

The formation of villages in Lorraine is too often linked to the periods that followed the ravages of the Thirty Years' War, but for Pierrevillers, it is difficult to attribute to an existing construction a date that goes back before the 18th century.

In 1794, François de Pange and his younger brother Jacques were hidden there by the Marlier family (from which their servant Joseph came) before reaching the Austrian Netherlands on foot.

This urban structure was to be preserved until the construction of "la Cité" from the tile of the Pierrevillers mine, at the end of the 19th century, where the minette, a stratum of iron ore outcropping on the upstream side of the commune, was exploited.

The 572,000 tonnes extracted annually by 300 miners were transported by cable (counterweights of this line, erected on the ground, remain visible from the national road between Pierrevillers and Marange) to the newly founded Hagondange plant.