Ribniška koča stands on a small plateau just below Mali Črni vrh (1533 m) in the main Pohorje ridge. The predecessor of today's hut was built on the nearby Ribniški sedlo by the Maribor branch of the SPD and opened on July 10, 1932; in thanks to dr. Davorin Senjor (1882-1960), the president of the branch, who was the driving force in the construction, named the outpost "Senjorjev dom. Fighters of the 1st Pohorje Battalion burned the home on October 9, 1942. PD Maribor-matica built a new Ribniška koča hut on the fire site the former Hutter's villas, which began operating in 1946 and were opened on 29 November 1949. In 1971, PD Maribor-matica ceded the PD Radlje ob Dravi hut, which was unable to renovate such a demanding building, so the hut was closed in 1973. Ribniška koča took over the then newly established PD Sladki Vrh in 1976. With the help of donors and a lot of voluntary work of mountaineers members of PD Sladki Vrh, the hut was completely renovated and reopened in 1978. Due to the beautiful building and beautiful view, the hut took the name "Queen of Pohorje mountain lodges".
View:
From the hut there is a beautiful view of the nearby Jezerski vrh, where there is a monument to fallen fighters-mountaineers, and further east to the ridge of Pohorje and part of the Drava valley with Maribor; on the western side, the highest Pohorje peaks, Črni vrh and Velika Kopa, rise nearby; on the northern side of Pohorje we can see Ribnica na Pohorju, Janževski vrh and Rdeči breg, part of the Drava valley with Radlje ob Dravi and almost the entire Kozjak mountain range. From Mali Črni vrh we can see Mislinjska dolina, Graška gora, Paški Kozjak, Posavsko hribovje in the south, and Savinjske Alpe, Uršlja gora, Peca, Obir, Svinška planina and Golica to the west and northwest.