Medieval minstrel(s) in Germany

One reason the posting has become a little sporadic is that I am currently in Germany. So I thought I should perhaps look for some information about the medieval minstrel in Germany - what do we know about their status, for example? A chapter by Maria Dobozy in the book "The stranger in medieval society" looks interesting, but seems to assume from the outset that minstrels were wandering. Within the first paragraph she argues: minstrels are itinerant; this leads to them having only temporary social ties; and hence outsider status. But what is the evidence for this?

Dobozy quotes German law code that "Hired fighters and their children, minstrels [spellude] and all those illegitimate born...are without rights" but notes this does not mean they have no legal protection, rather that they cannot serve as witnesses or similar in a court of law. She links this to the idea that they lack social ties, hence no-one knows them well enough to trust them in this kind of legal capacity. But a minstrel who serves a regular patron, or who joins a guild to protect their business within one town, does not seem likely to have had 'pariah status'.

Even those who did perhaps find themselves performing quite often in different places seem more likely to have established a regular 'round' of the towns or castles, where they would soon be known, and hopefully welcomed back. I'm basing this judgement partly on modern experience. Nearly all musicians trying to make a living know that they do better to establish regular gigs where they are sure of a welcome than to 'wander' hopefully to somewhere they are completely unknown. I doubt the experience of the medieval musician was so different.