This liquid oxygen storage was build by Société Metallurgique des Terres Rouges (SMTR) in 1937. In that year the SMTR was taken over by the Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange (ARBED) a major Luxembourg-based steel and iron producing company.

The site, on the French site of the border was part of the Terre Rouge site in Luxembourg. Since the shutdown of the last furnaces in 1997, these buildings are also left abandoned.