Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig caritas-mettmann.de. NS
Answer
caritas-mettmann.de. 5 NS ns1077.ui-dns.biz.
caritas-mettmann.de. 5 NS ns1077.ui-dns.com.
caritas-mettmann.de. 5 NS ns1077.ui-dns.org.
caritas-mettmann.de. 5 NS ns1077.ui-dns.de.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0