 Lutz Schmadel, the author of the "Dictionary of Minor Planet Names" learned about Reinmuth's source of inspiration from private communications with Dutch astronomer Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, who worked as a young astronomer at Heidelberg.In the SDSS-based taxonomy, "Imhilde" is a carbonaceous C-type asteroid.The Imhilde family's overall spectral type is CX.